A Study on MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Gong, Haigang ; Zhang, Xue ; Yu, Lingfei ; Wang, Xiaomin ; Yi, Fasheng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2009

fDate

17-19 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

728

Lastpage

732

Abstract

Medium Access Control (MAC) is an important technique that ensures the successful operation of WSN because it controls the radio´s activity of sensor nodes, which consumes node´s major energy. MAC protocols must be energy efficient in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we study MAC protocols for WSNs, including schedule-based protocols such as TDMA and contention-based protocols such as S-MAC. Then we make comparisons with some typical MAC protocols to show the impaction on network performance under different scenarios.

Keywords

access protocols; wireless sensor networks; MAC protocol; contention based protocols; energy efficiency; media access control; schedule based protocols; wireless sensor networks; Access protocols; Batteries; Computer science; Energy efficiency; Fluctuations; Media Access Protocol; Radio control; Time division multiple access; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks; MAC; WSNs; contention-based; energy efficient; schedule-based;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, 2009. FCST '09. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3932-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5467-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FCST.2009.48

Filename

5392834