A Real-Time and Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Pardeep Kumar, Mesut Güneş, Qasim Mushtaq, Bastian Blywis

6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, IEEE, pp. 413--417, Cairo, Egypt: IEEE Press, April 2009

2009-04

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@inproceedings{pkumar_wocn09, author = {Pardeep Kumar and Mesut G{\"u}nes and Qasim Mushtaq and Bastian Blywis}, title = {A Real-Time and Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks}, booktitle = {6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks}, year = {2009}, pages = {413--417}, address = {Cairo, Egypt}, month = {April}, organization = {IEEE}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, abstract = {This paper proposes AREA-MAC, a medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). AREA-MAC reduces latency and energy consumption of nodes by using low power listening (LPL) with short preamble messages. Other protocols like B-MAC use long preamble messages that cause higher latency, energy consumption, and control overhead on nodes. AREA-MAC provides a reasonable trade-off between vital parameters, such as system fairness, throughput, scalability, and adaptability to traffic conditions. Additionally, to minimize network latency and maximize its lifetime, two application-based optimization problems are formulated. The gain of AREA-MAC in terms of delay and energy efficiency and an OMNeT++ based simulation framework are also discussed.}, owner = {pkumar}, timestamp = {2009.05.04} }