MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks over radio-over-fiber links

Author

De Andrade, Tiago P C ; Fonseca, Nelson L S da ; Oliveira, Leonardo B. ; Branquinho, Omar C.

Author_Institution

Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

10-15 June 2012

Firstpage

254

Lastpage

259

Abstract

In this paper, two Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols exclusively tailored to WSNs over RoF (RWSNs) namely SPP-MAC (Scheduled Priority Polling Medium Access Control) (polling-based) and HMARS (Hybrid Medium Access Control for Hybrid Radio-over-Fiber Wireless Sensor Network Architecture) (hybrid-based) are proposed. They deal with the main problems in RWSNs i.e. the delay imposed by optical fiber and the existence of two collision domains: the wireless and the fiber optical links. The performance of these two protocols evince their effectiveness for the connection of WSNs by RoF links.

Keywords

access protocols; optical fibre networks; optical links; radio-over-fibre; wireless sensor networks; HMARS; MAC protocol; RWSN; RoF link; SPP-MAC; collision domain; fiber optical link; hybrid medium access control; hybrid radio-over-fiber wireless sensor network architecture; optical fiber; radio-over-fiber link; scheduled priority polling; wireless link; Media Access Protocol; Optical fiber communication; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Hybrid Systems; MAC Protocols; New Architecture; Radio-over-Fiber (RoF); Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2052-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2012.6364498

Filename

6364498