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. 2012 Nov 2;12(11):14730–14773. doi: 10.3390/s121114730

Table 1.

Comparison between CSMA/CA and TDMA.

Performance Metric CSMA/CA TDMA
Power consumption High Low
Efficiency at light traffic Good Poor
Efficiency at high traffic Poor Good
Bandwidth utilization Low Maximum
Scalability Good Poor
Effect of packet failure Low Latency
Synchronization Not applicable Required