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A Traffic Queue-aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469515,
        author={Zhiwei  Zhao and Xinming  Zhang and Peng Sun and Pengxi Liu},
        title={A Traffic Queue-aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2008},
        month={3},
        keywords={MAC Protocol  Prediction  Traffic Queue  Wireless Sensor Networks},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469515}
    }
    
  • Zhiwei Zhao
    Xinming Zhang
    Peng Sun
    Pengxi Liu
    Year: 2008
    A Traffic Queue-aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469515
Zhiwei Zhao1, Xinming Zhang1,*, Peng Sun1, Pengxi Liu1
  • 1: Department of Computer Science and Technology University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, 230027, P.R. China
*Contact email: xinmingg@ustc.edu.cn

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks have been widely used in many important areas. Medium access control (MAC) protocols take charge of the distribution and administration of sensor network's wireless channel, and have a significant influence on the function and performance of sensor networks. Most traditional MAC protocols do not consider traffic loads directly, but the amount of traffic affects the efficiency of channel assignment and energy utilization. This paper summarizes existing wireless sensor network MAC protocols, and proposes a novel traffic queue-aware sensor MAC protocol (QSMAC) which is based on sensor MAC (SMAC) protocol and can predict the amount of data traffic in network with the average increase rate of data packets in a node's buffer queue. The simulation indicates that the performance of our protocol is much better than that of SMAC protocol in data packet's delay, the consumption of energy, the reception ratio of data packets and the throughput of the network.

Keywords
MAC Protocol Prediction Traffic Queue Wireless Sensor Networks
Published
2008-03-07
Publisher
IEEE
Modified
2011-07-19
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469515
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