Title :
Thorough Analysis of MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author :
Chang Zhou ; Ting Zhu
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Eng., China Jiliang Univ., Hangzhou
Abstract :
Due to the nature of low sensing range, limited power capacity, high density, more efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols are needed to achieve low latency, low power and high throughput in wireless sensor networks. This paper summarized the key requirements for MAC protocol design and analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of existed MAC protocols and outlined promising directions for future work.
Keywords :
carrier sense multiple access; time division multiple access; wireless sensor networks; CSMA; TDMA; medium access control protocols; wireless sensor networks; Access protocols; Delay; Energy efficiency; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Power engineering and energy; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2107-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2108-4
DOI :
10.1109/WiCom.2008.887
