Power Efficient and Low Latency MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Parmar, Sumeet N. ; Nandi, Sukumar ; Chowdhury, Atanu Roy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Indian Inst. of Technol., Guwahati

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

28-28 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

940

Lastpage

944

Abstract

Existing protocols for medium access in wireless sensor networks opt for staggered wakeup scheduling among clusters of nodes. However intra-cluster contention and interference has remained an unaddressed issue. In this work we propose PELLMAC: power efficient and low latency MAC for wireless sensor networks, a schema that addresses node scheduling for channel access. By limiting contention between adjacent branches of the data gathering tree, we are able to reduce the latency of the network, as well as optimize energy utilization. Simulation results, in accordance with our claims, show that PELLMAC enhances performance in energy savings, latency and delivery ratio

Keywords

access protocols; pattern clustering; scheduling; wireless sensor networks; channel access; data gathering tree; energy savings; energy utilization; interference; intra-cluster contention; low latency MAC; node scheduling; staggered wakeup scheduling; wireless sensor networks; Computer science; Delay; Interference; Media Access Protocol; Proposals; Scheduling; Sleep; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, 2006. SECON '06. 2006 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society on

Conference_Location

Reston, VA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0626-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAHCN.2006.288586

Filename

4068395