Multichannel MAC for energy efficient home area networks

Author

Kok Keong Chai ; Jimaa, Shihab ; Yun Li ; Yue Chen ; Siying Wang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

7-9 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

32

Abstract

This paper proposes a multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocol for energy efficient IEEE802.15.4 home area networks that consists of novel allocation and superframe scheduling algorithm that improves the channel selection strategy and the superframe scheduling. It aims to improve the overall reliability and reduce the average delay. The proposed protocol is implemented in IEEE802.15.4 home area network andsimulation results show the proposed protocol outperforms the existing IEEE802.15.4 MAC protocols in the aspects of schedulability, reliability, delay and the overall throughput.

Keywords

Zigbee; access protocols; delays; indoor radio; scheduling; telecommunication channels; telecommunication network reliability; IEEE802.15.4 MAC protocols; channel selection strategy; delay; energy efficient IEEE802.15.4 home area networks; multichannel MAC; multichannel medium access control protocol; reliability; schedulability; superframe scheduling; superframe scheduling algorithm; MAC protocol; channel allocation; multichannel; superframe scheduling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

2160-4886

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiMOB.2013.6673336

Filename

6673336