Title :
Multi Channel MAC Implementation for Wireless Sensor Networks
Author :
Ramakrishnan, M. ; Ranjan, P. Vanaja
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Anna Univ. Chennai, Guindy, India
Abstract :
In this work, a Multi Channel Medium Access Control (MAC) has been implemented in PICSENSE wireless sensor network hardware platform. A measurement based dynamic channel allocation has been proposed in a dedicated control channel based multi channel medium access control protocol. The implementation has been done with three channels, a control channel and two data channels. Throughput and latency has been taken as the performance metrics and the throughput and latency performance has been compared with that of single channel MAC. And the results show that the proposed multi channel MAC has higher throughput and lower latency than the single channel MAC at high traffic conditions.
Keywords :
access protocols; channel allocation; wireless channels; wireless sensor networks; PICSENSE wireless sensor network; data channels; dedicated control channel; dynamic channel allocation; medium access control protocol; multi channel MAC implementation; performance metrics; Access protocols; Delay; Educational institutions; Frequency; Hardware; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; Throughput; Transceivers; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Computing, Control, & Telecommunication Technologies, 2009. ACT '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Trivandrum, Kerala
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5321-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3915-7
DOI :
10.1109/ACT.2009.205
