Title :
Implementation and Performance Evaluation of nanoMAC: A Low-Power MAC Solution for High Density Wireless Sensor Networks
Author :
Ansari, Junaid ; Riihijärvi, Janne ; Mähönen, Petri ; Haapola, Jussi
Author_Institution :
Department of Wireless Networks, RWTH Aachen University, Kackertstrasse 9, D-52072 Aachen, Germany. Email: jan@mobnets.rwth-aachen.de
Abstract :
This paper describes the implementation architecture and performance analysis of nanoMAC, a CSMA/CA based medium access control protocol, which is specifically designed for high density wireless sensor networks. We empirically show that nanoMAC performs with high reliability in a variety of network traffic conditions in single and multihop scenarios. For energy efficient operation and minimizing idle-overhearing, nanoMAC uses a specialized sleep algorithmWe also show results from a comparative study of nanoMAC with B-MAC in terms of performance measures.
Keywords :
Access protocols; Communication system traffic control; Energy efficiency; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Sleep; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks; Multihop communication; Reliability; Wireless Sensor MAC;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2006. ICC '06. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0355-3
Electronic_ISBN :
8164-9547
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2006.255614
