Title :
A low energy consumption MAC protocol for WSN
Author :
Bernard, Thibault ; Fouchal, Hacène
Author_Institution :
CReSTIC Lab., Univ. de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Abstract :
The design of an energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is one of the major issues in wireless sensor networks (WSN). In this study, we present a MAC protocol adapted to a particular class of WSNs. This protocol is mainly used for nodes located in the same radio range. It could be used by WSNs dedicated to environment monitoring where each node senses a parameter periodically. In this particular case, a node executes a code during a small period and in the rest of the time it moves to a sleeping mode. Our protocol maintains a abstract ring which ensures the ordered communications and avoids collisions. The actual version of the technique is one-hop based communication. The multi-hop extension is discussed in the paper.
Keywords :
access protocols; wireless sensor networks; WSN; abstract ring; collision avoidance; energy-efficient medium access control protocol; environment monitoring; low energy consumption MAC protocol; multihop extension; one-hop based communication; ordered communications; sleeping mode; wireless sensor networks; Clocks; Computer crashes; Media Access Protocol; Monitoring; Synchronization; Wireless sensor networks; Abstractring; Distributed systems; MAC protocols; Wireless sensor network;
Conference_Titel :
Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2052-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1550-3607
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2012.6363918
