Distributed Medium Access Control with Flow-Based Priority for Cooperative Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Walker, T. Owens ; Tummala, Murali ; McEachen, John

Author_Institution

Naval Postgraduate Sch., Monterey

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

493

Lastpage

493

Abstract

Medium access control for a distributed cooperative wireless sensor network is examined. Using a quality-of-service approach, the sensor node traffic (control and data packets) within these cooperative networks is characterized. A novel medium access control mechanism, cooperative wireless sensor medium access control (CWS-MAC), is proposed to meet the requirements of the control and data traffic classes. CWS-MAC couples a high throughput TDMA scheme with a unique cross-layer, flow-based priority mechanism that is enforced across nodes. Design parameters for CWS-MAC are investigated and an implementation strategy is presented. Performance analysis of CWS-MAC is provided for the control packet mean delay as well as control and data packet throughput. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate that CWS-MAC outperforms both traditional TDMA and contention-based CSMA.

Keywords

data communication; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; wireless sensor networks; CWS-MAC; TDMA scheme; control packet mean delay; cooperative multihop networks; data packet throughput; data packets; distributed medium access control; flow-based priority; flow-based priority mechanism; quality-of-service approach; sensor node traffic; wireless sensor networks; Communication system traffic control; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; Quality of service; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Time division multiple access; Traffic control; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of the 41st Annual

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2008.126

Filename

4439193