Title
Energy and rate based MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Abstract
Sensor networks are typically unattended because of their deployment in hazardous, hostile or remote environments. This makes the problem of conserving energy at individual sensor nodes challenging. S-MAC and PAMAS are two MAC protocols which periodically put nodes (selected at random) to sleep in order to achieve energy savings. Unlike these protocols, we propose an approach in which node duty cycles (i.e sleep and wake schedules) are based on their criticality. A distributed algorithm is used to find sets of winners and losers, who are then assigned appropriate slots in our TDMA based MAC protocol. We introduce the concept of of energy-criticality of a sensor node as a function of energies and traffic rates. Our protocol makes more critical nodes sleep longer, thereby balancing the energy consumption. Simulation results show that the performance of the protocol with increase in traffic load is better than existing protocols with increase in traffic load is better than existing protocols, thereby illustrating the energy balancing nature of the approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1145/959060.959071
SIGMOD Record
Keywords
Field
DocType
individual sensor,traffic rate,energy consumption,energy saving,sensor node,wireless sensor network,sensor network,critical node,conserving energy,mac protocols,energy-efficiency,tdma,traffic load,mac protocol,wireless sensor networks,duty cycle,distributed algorithm,energy efficiency,energy efficient,energy balance
Sensor node,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Computer network,Distributed algorithm,Mobile wireless sensor network,Time division multiple access,Wireless sensor network,Energy consumption
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
4
0163-5808
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
2.15
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
rajgopal kannan174367.15
Ram Kalidindi2202.15
S. S. Iyengar315225.22
vijay kumar431678.21