A general model for MAC protocol selection in wireless sensor networks

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has gained enormous popularity since it is a base of an Internet of Things and applied in many areas of application. However, this network suffers an energy constraint issue which has to be tackled. Medium Access Control (MAC) manages the radio communication of transmitter and receiver, which is the highest energy consumed of sensor nodes. Therefore, many researchers have been proposed new MAC protocols to overcome this limitation. This paper explores and compares several MAC protocols for clustering WSN. Clustering network has a different characteristic since it classifies nodes as Cluster Heads and Cluster Members. This leads to a unique approach in developing MAC to enhance the network's performance.

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“…Generally, four metrics are used to measure the effectiveness of the proposed MAC, as listed below [6], [28], [29].…”

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A Survey on Medium Access Control (MAC) for Clustering Wireless Sensor Network

Anhar

Nilavalan

Ujang

2018

2018 2nd International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (ICon EEI)

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“…If the proposed traffic and radio models are generic, the latency and energy models are specific to each MAC, making the proposed approach hard to extend to new protocols. Asudeh et al [22] proposed a selection framework to choose the appropriate protocol that satisfies the requirements for a given context defined by a set of input parameters. Three categories of protocols (preamble sampling, common active period and scheduled) are defined and it is assumed that protocols in the same category have similar performance characteristics.…”

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A Generic Framework for Modeling MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

Aoudia

Gautier

Magno

et al. 2017

IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking

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International audienceWireless sensor networks are employed in many applications such as health care, environmental sensing, and industrial monitoring. An important research issue is the design of efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols, which have an essential role for the reliability, the latency, the throughput and the energy efficiency of communication, especially as communication is typically one of the most energy consuming tasks. Therefore, analytical models providing a clear understanding of the fundamental limitations of the different MAC schemes, as well as convenient way to investigate their performance and optimize their parameters, are required. In this work, we propose a generic framework for modeling MAC protocols, which focuses on energy consumption, latency and reliability. The framework is based on absorbing Markov chains, and can be used to compare different schemes and evaluate new approaches. The different steps required to model a specific MAC using the proposed framework are illustrated through a study case. Moreover, to exemplify how the proposed framework can be used to evaluate new MAC paradigms, evaluation of the novel pure-asynchronous approach, enabled by emerging ultra-low power wake-up receivers, is done using the proposed framework. Experimental measurements on real hardware were performed to set framework parameters with accurate energy consumption and latency values, to validate the framework, and to support our results

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“…If the proposed traffic and radio models are generic, the latency and energy models are specific to each MAC, making this approach hard to extend to new protocols. Asudeh et al [15] proposed a selection framework to choose the appropriate protocol that satisfies the requirements for a given context defined by a set of input parameters. Three categories of protocols (preamble sampling, common active period and scheduled) are defined and it is assumed that the protocols in the same category have similar performance characteristics.…”

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Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Wake-Up Receivers Based Protocols

Aoudia

Magno

Gautier

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)

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Achieving energy efficient wireless communication is the most pursued goal in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), as energy consumption is typically a major barrier to long term applications. In recent years, ultra-low power Wake-up Receivers (WuRx) have emerged, enabling pure asynchronous wireless communication that eliminates energy waste due to idle listening. However, to achieve a significant increase of energy efficiency compared to traditional duty-cycling approaches, Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols exploiting WuRx must be carefully designed. Therefore, we propose an analytical framework to model MAC protocols, leveraging WuRx or not, which gives an important evaluation of power consumption, latency and reliability. This framework was used to both model a WuRxbased MAC protocol, and to model two other state-of-the art MAC protocols for WSNs not using WuRx. Experimental power consumption and latency measurements were conducted to validate the proposed framework and the MAC protocol leveraging WuRx. Analytical results show the convenience of using WuRx and quantify the benefits of this emerging technology. These results demonstrate that using WuRx achieves up to 135 times lower power consumption and up to 23 times lower latency compared to traditional approaches in typical low throughput WSNs applications.

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A general model for MAC protocol selection in wireless sensor networks

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A Survey on Medium Access Control (MAC) for Clustering Wireless Sensor Network

A Survey on Medium Access Control (MAC) for Clustering Wireless Sensor Network

A Generic Framework for Modeling MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Wake-Up Receivers Based Protocols

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