Self-organize multi-channel random selection medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks

Author

Tsung-Ta Wu ; Kae-Hsiang Kwong ; Michie, C. ; Andonovic, I.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Commun. & Signal Process., Glasgow

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

569

Lastpage

570

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel multi-channel medium access control (MAC) that is based on CSMA/CA mechanism. The objective of this research is to evaluate the possibility of increasing network capacity and addressing collision problem of wireless sensor network comprising of low spec physical hardware. The proposed protocol can be implemented into wireless sensor network platform i.e. MICAz, Tmote-Sky without any additional hardware or firmware. Experiment results show that the proposed protocol can effectively improve the network performance compared with traditional single channel MAC.

Keywords

access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; multiuser channels; wireless sensor networks; CSMA-CA mechanism; collision problem; medium access control; network capacity; self-organize multichannel MAC; wireless sensor networks; Access protocols; Frequency; Hardware; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Peer to peer computing; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Switches; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2008. CCNC 2008. 5th IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1456-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1457-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ccnc08.2007.132

Filename

4446430