HMARS: A MAC protocol for integration of Radio-over-Fiber and Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

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

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput., State Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

24-26 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) has been employed in network infrastructures due to its large capacity, low attenuation, low operational costs and enlarged network coverage. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has also been broadly deployed. The integration of these two powerful technologies leads to new infrastructures. In this work, we introduce a new approach for integrating of RoF and WSNs, and present HMARS, a MAC protocol proposed exclusively for this new type of integration. Our results indicate that HMARS performs considerable better than others MAC protocols in this integration.

Keywords

access protocols; radio-over-fibre; wireless sensor networks; HMARS; MAC protocol; network infrastructures; radio-over-fiber network; wireless sensor network; Media Access Protocol; Monitoring; Optical sensors; Time division multiple access; Wireless sensor networks; HMARS; Hybrid Systems; Medium Access Control Protocols; Radio-over-Fiber; Wireless Sensor Network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (LATINCOM), 2011 IEEE Latin-American Conference on

Conference_Location

Belem do Para

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0277-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LatinCOM.2011.6107418

Filename

6107418