Energy Efficiency of MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Shen, Jian ; Yi, Faliu ; Moh, Sangman ; Chung, Ilyong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Chosun Univ., Gwangju, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

26-29 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have appealed to researchers due to their wide range of application areas such as target detection and tracking, environment monitoring, and tactical systems. For WSNs, various medium access control (MAC) protocols with different objectives have been proposed. Designing energy-efficient MAC protocols has a significant influence on the network lifetime in WSNs. However, short sensing ranges result in dense networks and thus it becomes necessary to achieve an efficient MAC protocol subject to energy constraints. In this paper, we study the energy efficiency of typical MAC protocols in WSNs systematically. The MAC protocols are categorized into contention-based, TDMA-based, hybrid, and cross layer MAC protocols according to channel access policy, and their pros and cons are qualitatively compared. Then, the typical MAC protocols are evaluated in terms of energy efficiency using the ns-2 network simulator and compared to each other quantitatively.

Keywords

access protocols; telecommunication network reliability; time division multiple access; wireless sensor networks; MAC protocols; NS-2 network simulator; TDMA; WSN; energy efficiency; environment monitoring; medium access control protocols; network lifetime; tactical systems; target detection; wireless sensor networks; Energy efficiency; Media Access Protocol; Sleep; Synchronization; Time division multiple access; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Science and Applications (ICISA), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9222-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-9223-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICISA.2011.5772405

Filename

5772405