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    On the Improvement of Receiver-Initiated MAC Protocols for WSNs by Applying Scheduling


    Cano, Christina, Malone, David, 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: 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)
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    URI: https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/6240
    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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