Title :
Improved medium access control for wireless sensor networks - a study on the S-MAC protocol
Author :
Chiras, T. ; Paterakis, M. ; Koutsakis, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Crete Tech. Univ., Chania
Abstract :
An efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is critical for the performance of a wireless sensor network (WSN), especially in terms of energy consumption. In this work we discuss the efficiency of S-MAC, a well-known MAC protocol for WSNs, and propose an improvement on the protocol. Via an extensive simulation study considering the cases of both simple and complicated topologies, the enhanced protocol is shown to outperform the original version of S-MAC in energy conservation
Keywords :
access protocols; telecommunication network topology; wireless sensor networks; MAC; S-MAC protocol; medium access control; network topology; wireless sensor networks; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Delay; Energy consumption; Fault tolerance; Global Positioning System; Media Access Protocol; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks; Energy Consumption; MAC protocol; Wireless Sensor Networks;
Conference_Titel :
Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, 2005. LANMAN 2005. The 14th IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Crete
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9565-4
DOI :
10.1109/LANMAN.2005.1541537
