Adapted listening in wireless sensor network MAC protocol

Zhen Fu, Yuan Yang', Tae Seok Lee, Myong Soon Park

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    Abstract

    Research activity in the area of medium-access control protocols of wireless sensor networks (WSN) has grown dramatically in the past few years. A number of MAC protocols are proposed to achieve energy efficiency upon the limitation of WSN which are usually deployed in a special environment, assigned with long-term work, and supported by limited battery. It is found that there is a trade-off between energy efficiency and transmission delay, thus duty cycle of fixed sleep/listening MAC protocols has to be adjusted carefully to achieve the best performance. Taking the challenge to design an adapted listening mechanism, A-MAC is designed to adaptively and dynamically adjust the duty listening time based on traffic load. With A-MAC, it can achieve more power efficiency in low traffic load and much less transmission latency comparing to existing MAC protocols. We simulate A-MAC, and the simulation result shows that A-MAC can significantly prolong the lifetime of network when traffic is low and reduce packet delivery latency.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationUbiquitous Intelligence and Computing - Third International Conference, UIC 2006, Proceedings
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages546-555
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Print)3540380914, 9783540380917
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2006
    Event3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC 2006 - Wuhan, China
    Duration: 2006 Sept 32006 Sept 6

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume4159 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Other

    Other3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC 2006
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityWuhan
    Period06/9/306/9/6

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • General Computer Science

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