DA-MAC: Density aware MAC for dynamic wireless sensor networks

Author

Corbellini, Giorgio ; Strinati, Emilio Calvanese ; Ben Hamida, Elyes ; Duda, Andrzej

fYear

2011

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

920

Lastpage

924

Abstract

The paper presents DA-MAC, a density aware access method for efficient forwarding in multi-hop dense wireless sensor networks. Its principle is to offer a configurable channel sensing phase during which nodes request transmission opportunity in a way that avoids collisions. The receiver can thus schedule transmissions so that nodes may return to sleep and only wake up at their scheduled transmission instants. Allowing burst transmissions improves network capacity and the network can handle load fluctuations. The paper presents simulation results on the performance of DA-MAC compared with two other adaptive access methods: B-MAC with Contention Window and SCP-MAC. They show excellent performance of DA-MAC with respect to latency, packet delivery ratio, and power consumption.

Keywords

access protocols; channel capacity; power consumption; radio receivers; scheduling; wireless sensor networks; DA-MAC; burst transmissions; configurable channel sensing phase; density aware MAC; density aware access; dynamic wireless sensor networks; efficient forwarding; load fluctuations; multihop dense wireless sensor networks; network capacity; packet delivery ratio; power consumption; radio receiver; schedule transmissions; transmission opportunity; Power demand; Protocols; Receivers; Schedules; Sensors; Synchronization; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1346-0

Electronic_ISBN

pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6140103

Filename

6140103