SARI-MAC: The Self Adapting Receiver Initiated MAC protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Lampin, Quentin ; Barthel, Dominique ; Augé-Blum, Isabelle ; Valois, Fabrice

Author_Institution

Orange Labs. R&D, Meylan, France

fYear

2012

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

18

Abstract

This paper presents the Self Adapting Receiver Initiated MAC protocol (SARI-MAC), a novel asynchronous MAC protocol for energy constrained Wireless Sensor Networks. SARI-MAC self-adapts to the traffic load to meet specified Quality of Service requirements at the lowest energy cost possible. To do so, SARI-MAC relies on traffic estimation, duty-cycle adaptation and acknowledgement mechanisms. Our performance evaluation assesses that SARI-MAC meets given QoS requirements in a energy efficient manner and outperforms the state of the art protocol RI-MAC in a broad range of traffic scenarios.

Keywords

access protocols; quality of service; wireless sensor networks; QoS requirement; SARI-MAC protocol; acknowledgement mechanisms; asynchronous MAC protocol; duty-cycle adaptation; energy-constrained wireless sensor networks; self-adapting receiver-initiated MAC protocol; specified quality of service requirements; traffic estimation; traffic load; Delay; Estimation; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Receivers; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

2160-4886

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1429-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiMOB.2012.6379065

Filename

6379065