DominoMAC: A Wireless Sensor Networks Medium Access Protocol

Author

Gebali, Fayez ; Sulaimani, R. ; Elmiligi, Haytham

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

12-14 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

13

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks have unique characteristics and restricted energy efficiency performance requirements that dictate special medium access control (MAC) protocols. In this work we show that design of any MAC should mainly consider the proximal nodes near the sink since they carry the most traffic while being the most crucial for survival of the network. We provide a comprehensive analysis of sensor network traffic and its impact on the design of MAC protocols. Network performance is modelled using analysis and verified using numerical simulations. The MAC protocol we propose here has several attractive features: viz. is collision-free, allows smooth degradation of network due to battery discharge, has short active period to prolong network operational time.

Keywords

access protocols; numerical analysis; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication traffic; wireless sensor networks; DominoMAC protocol; battery discharge; numerical simulations; restricted energy efficiency performance; sensor network traffic analysis; wireless sensor network medium access protocol; Indexes; Media Access Protocol; Silicon; Time division multiple access; Vectors; Wireless sensor networks; Sensor networks; Wireless MAC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA), 2012 Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2972-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BWCCA.2012.12

Filename

6363027