Enhanced mobile lightweight Medium Access Control protocol for wireless sensor networks

Author

Yazdi, Ehsan Tabatabaei ; Mohamed, Amina Ahmed ; Zareei, Mahdi ; Wan, Tat-Chee

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Sains Malaysia, Minden, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

25-28 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

152

Lastpage

155

Abstract

EML-MAC is a new TDMA based Medium Access Control MAC protocol designed to improve the energy efficiency of the WSN nodes by improving the time slot synchronization algorithm for ML-MAC. The proposed slot assignment algorithm reduces duplicate slot assignment by reducing slot collision. This reduces the duty cycle of the transceiver by improving the handshaking process and reducing the number of transition between transceiver states. The proposed EML-MAC protocol results in smaller frame size compare to related protocols such as L-MAC and ML-MAC, as well as reduce energy consumption by up to 26.06 % compare to L-MAC and up to 3.86% compared to ML-MAC.

Keywords

access protocols; mobile ad hoc networks; radio transceivers; wireless sensor networks; EML-MAC; MAC protocol; TDMA; WSN nodes; enhanced mobile lightweight medium access control protocol; handshaking process; slot assignment algorithm; slot collision; time slot synchronization algorithm; transceiver states; wireless sensor networks; Energy consumption; Media Access Protocol; Synchronization; Throughput; Transceivers; Wireless sensor networks; MAC protocol; Time synchronization; WSN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology and Applications (ISWTA), 2011 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Langkawi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1496-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWTA.2011.6089399

Filename

6089399