A medium access control (MAC) protocol generally regulates the access of devices to a shared medium. In case of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), it is also responsible to create energy-efficient links between nodes, where messages can be sent to the sink node in a timely manner. This paper evaluates AREA-MAC, a medium access control protocol designed for real-time and energy-efficient WSN applications. AREA-MAC uses the low power listening (LPL) technique with short preamble messages to minimize latency, energy consumption, and control overhead on nodes. Though AREA-MAC is mainly associated with the MAC layer, it exploits simple routing at the network layer and interacts with application as well as PHY layers. In this evaluation a crosslayer design perspective is adopted, where direct interaction between different layers is examined. Through simulation study, we evaluate the timeliness, energy-efficiency, and packet reception ratio for nodes using AREA-MAC with and without cross-layer support. Results show that the cross-layering improves network performance in terms of timeliness and energyefficiency but it comes at the cost of relatively low packet reception ratio at the sink node.
Titel
Performance Evaluation of AREA-MAC: A Cross-Layer Perspective
@inproceedings{pkumar_icmu10,
author = {Pardeep Kumar and Mesut G{\"u}nes and Qasim Mushtaq and Jochen Schiller},
title = {Performance Evaluation of AREA-MAC: A Cross-Layer Perspective},
booktitle = {The Fifth International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU 2010)},
year = {2010},
address = {Seattle, USA},
month = {April},
abstract = {A medium access control (MAC) protocol generally regulates the access of devices to a shared medium. In case of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), it is also responsible to create energy-efficient links between nodes, where messages can be sent to the sink node in a timely manner. This paper evaluates AREA-MAC, a medium access control protocol designed for real-time and energy-efficient WSN applications. AREA-MAC uses the low power listening (LPL) technique with short preamble messages to minimize latency, energy consumption, and control overhead on nodes. Though AREA-MAC is mainly associated with the MAC layer, it exploits simple routing at the network layer and interacts with application as well as PHY layers. In this evaluation a crosslayer design perspective is adopted, where direct interaction between different layers is examined. Through simulation study, we evaluate the timeliness, energy-efficiency, and packet reception ratio for nodes using AREA-MAC with and without cross-layer support. Results show that the cross-layering improves network performance in terms of timeliness and energyefficiency but it comes at the cost of relatively low packet reception ratio at the sink node.},
owner = {pkumar},
timestamp = {2010.02.04}
}
