A queue management MAC protocol for Delay-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks

Author

Li, Jie ; Qu, Yu-Gui ; Li, Qi-Yue ; Zhao, Bao-Hua

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng. & Inf. Sci., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

27-29 March 2010

Firstpage

426

Lastpage

430

Abstract

For Delay-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks with highly dynamic and sparse topology, a queue management MAC protocol (Q-MAC) is proposed in this paper. Via the scheme of data transfers initiated by the targeted sinker and dynamic queue management strategy, Q-MAC provides better network performance. Furthermore experimental results show that Q-MAC reaches to 46% decreases in packet drop probability, 79% increase in system throughput, and 25% decrease in the mean packet delay.

Keywords

access protocols; queueing theory; wireless sensor networks; Q-MAC; data transfer; delay-tolerant mobile sensor networks; dynamic queue management strategy; mean packet delay; network performance; packet drop probability; queue management MAC protocol; sparse topology; Delay; Energy efficiency; Energy management; Environmental management; Media Access Protocol; Mobile communication; Network topology; Probes; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Delay-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks; Minimal Probe Frame; Ready To Receive; Wait To Send; medium access control; priority; queue management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Computer Control (ICACC), 2010 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenyang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5845-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICACC.2010.5486972

Filename

5486972