Implementation and Performance Evaluation of nanoMAC: A Low-Power MAC Solution for High Density Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Ansari, Junaid ; Riihijärvi, Janne ; Mähönen, Petri ; Haapola, Jussi

Author_Institution

Department of Wireless Networks, RWTH Aachen University, Kackertstrasse 9, D-52072 Aachen, Germany. Email: jan@mobnets.rwth-aachen.de

Volume

8

fYear

2006

fDate

38869

Firstpage

3497

Lastpage

3502

Abstract

This paper describes the implementation architecture and performance analysis of nanoMAC, a CSMA/CA based medium access control protocol, which is specifically designed for high density wireless sensor networks. We empirically show that nanoMAC performs with high reliability in a variety of network traffic conditions in single and multihop scenarios. For energy efficient operation and minimizing idle-overhearing, nanoMAC uses a specialized sleep algorithmWe also show results from a comparative study of nanoMAC with B-MAC in terms of performance measures.

Keywords

Access protocols; Communication system traffic control; Energy efficiency; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Sleep; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks; Multihop communication; Reliability; Wireless Sensor MAC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2006. ICC '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

ISSN

8164-9547

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0355-3

Electronic_ISBN

8164-9547

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2006.255614

Filename

4025015