Research Article
History-based MAC Protocol for Low Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks: the SLACK-MAC Protocol
@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.20-6-2016.151516, author={Affoua Th\^{e}r\'{e}se Aby and Alexandre Guitton and Pascal Lafourcade and Michel Misson}, title={History-based MAC Protocol for Low Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks: the SLACK-MAC Protocol}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications}, volume={2}, number={7}, publisher={EAI}, journal_a={MCA}, year={2016}, month={6}, keywords={WSN; adaptive; asynchronous MAC protocol; duty-cycle}, doi={10.4108/eai.20-6-2016.151516} }- Affoua Thérèse Aby
Alexandre Guitton
Pascal Lafourcade
Michel Misson
Year: 2016
History-based MAC Protocol for Low Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks: the SLACK-MAC Protocol
MCA
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.20-6-2016.151516
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly used in environmental monitoring applications. They are designed to operate for several months by featuring low activity cycles in order to save energy. In this paper, we propose a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for suchWSNs with very low duty-cycles of 1% and less. Nodes are activated randomly and use a history of previous successful frame exchanges to decide their next activation time. We study the choice of the history size, and we compare the performance of our protocol with other protocols from the literature. We show by simulations and real experiments that with a limited history size of only six entries, our protocol achieves better performance than other protocols from the literature, while keeping the advantages of fully asynchronous protocols.
Copyright © 2016 AffouaTherese Aby et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited. doi:10.4108/eai.20-6-2016.151516
