Challenges in the design of the MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks using VHDL

Author

Kaljic, Enio ; Aksamovic, Abdulah

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telecommun., Univ. of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

fYear

2014

fDate

27-29 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In the design of MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSN) it is necessary to fulfill some requirements such as low energy consumption, scalability, simplicity, etc. These requirements are not easy to fulfill from the viewpoint of implementation on FPGA or ASIC technologies. Therefore, in this paper we identify some challenges encountered during the design of MAC protocol for WSN. For some of these challenges, potential solutions are discussed. To illustrate the proposed solutions SMAC protocol is chosen. VHDL design of the S-MAC protocols is experimentally verified on the Altera EP2C5 FPGA development system.

Keywords

access protocols; field programmable gate arrays; hardware description languages; wireless sensor networks; ASIC technologies; Altera EP2C5 FPGA development system; SMAC protocol; VHDL design; WSN; energy consumption; field programmable gate arrays; wireless sensor networks; Clocks; Field programmable gate arrays; Media Access Protocol; Radio frequency; Random access memory; Wireless sensor networks; FPGA; MAC; S-MAC; VHDL; WSN; protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications (BIHTEL), 2014 X International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sarajevo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8038-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIHTEL.2014.6987635

Filename

6987635