Cano, Christina and Malone, David and Bellalta, Boris and Barceló, Jaume (2013) On the Improvement of Receiver-Initiated MAC Protocols for WSNs by Applying Scheduling. In: IEEE 14th International Symposium and Workshops on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2013. IEEE, pp. 1-3. ISBN 978-1-4673-5827-9

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Abstract

The two main drawbacks of receiver-initiated Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are that i) they require all nodes to send a beacon each time they wake up, and that ii) broadcast traffic is not efficiently supported. In this work, we propose addressing these limitations by extending receiver-initiated MAC protocols with scheduling, i.e, coordinating sensor nodes to wake up at nearly the same instant. Following this approach, only one sensor node in the neighborhood sends a beacon per wake-up period and, as all nodes are awake at the same time, broadcast transmissions are naturally supported. A distributed learning technique is used to establish the order of beacon transmissions. We present the protocol description and the time to convergence when a fully connected network is considered.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	WSN; broadcast traffic; protocol description; receiver-initiated MAC protocols; scheduling; sensor node coordination; wireless sensor networks;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematics and Statistics
Item ID:	6240
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583419
Depositing User:	Dr. David Malone
Date Deposited:	07 Jul 2015 15:40
Publisher:	IEEE
Refereed:	Yes
Funders:	Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
URI:	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.j...
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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