Reservation Packet Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks

Hengguang Li; Paul D. Mitchell

Reservation Packet Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks

Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

This paper introduces the Reservation Packet Medium Access Control (RP-MAC) protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The protocol incorporates a periodic listen/sleep schedule to conserve energy and employs a novel channel reservation mechanism to enhance the rate at which packets can be transferred over multiple hops, thereby improving throughput and reducing end-to-end delay. To evaluate the performance of RP-MAC, it is compared with the established S-MAC protocol through simulation. Results show that RP-MAC can support much higher traffic loads as a direct result of its higher throughput capability along with reduced end-to-end delay for packet transmissions across a multi-hop link. These benefits come at the expense of higher energy consumption, but this is maintained at an acceptable level.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2008 IEEE 19TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERSONAL, INDOOR AND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS
Place of Publication	NEW YORK
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	663-667
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-2643-0
Publication status	Published - 2008

Keywords

Wireless sensor network
medium access control
energy-efficiency
MAC
S-MAC
RP-MAC

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