Title :
Adaptive MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks in periodic data collection applications
Author :
Vahabi, Maryam ; Rasid, Mohd Fadlee A ; Hossein Fotouhi G., M. ; Abdullah, Raja Syamsul Azmir Raja
Author_Institution :
Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia
Abstract :
In this paper, we propose a new medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring applications. The proposed MAC scheme is specifically designed for wireless sensor networks which have periodic traffic with different sampling rates. In our protocol design, only sink can start and maintain synchronization and also determine the time schedule for all other nodes in the network. We discuss the design of TA-PDC-MAC protocol and provide a comparison with the previous PDC-MAC protocol through simulation. Under different traffic generation rate, our protocol outperforms the previous one in terms of energy consumption, packet loss rate and packet delay.
Keywords :
Access protocols; Communication system traffic control; Energy consumption; Media Access Protocol; Monitoring; Sampling methods; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology, 2008. ITSim 2008. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2327-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2328-6
DOI :
10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631921
