MAC Protocols Used by Wireless Sensor Networks and a General Method of Performance Evaluation

Kabara, Joseph; Calle, María

doi:10.1155/2012/834784

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“…Authors in [16] presented that if wireless sensor network enabling one radio in a node cannot support mobility in the network, and unable to transmit and receive data concurrently thus may result in higher delay and channel inefficiency. Authors also recommend that for random deployment of network topology (when the network topology is random) the contention-based (CSMA) approaches are helpful.…”

Section: Contention-based Mac Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards Developing a MAC protocol for outer-WBAN communication for pilgrims’ health monitoring during hajj: A feasibility study

Masud

Bakar

Yussof

2018

IJET

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Due to lack of deployment of information and communication technology (ICT) for real-time pilgrims' health monitoring during Hajj, many pilgrims left untreated, get lost and suffer from severe health problems which sometimes end with injury, traum and even death. WBAN is an emergent healthcare technology and can be deployed at Hajj ritual sites for pilgrims' health monitoring. WBANs body coordinator or gateway as an aggregator collect data from body nodes or sensors, store them and then forward to the healthcare stations for analyzing the data through outer-WBAN communications. Currently, most of the existing research works focused on intra-WBAN communications while the technical issues, problems, opportunities and standard correlated to outer-WBAN are not well discussed and mentioned. Since, medium access control (MAC) protocol is responsible for channel access, lower delay, and energy efficient transmission of data packets. Therefore, designing of an efficient and reliable MAC protocol is the earnest research demand to alleviate the aforementioned obstacle. In this research, a feasibility study has been completed to identify the problem and a proposal has been made to develop a suitable MAC protocol for outer-WBAN communication for pilgrims' health monitoring during Hajj.

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Section: Contention-based Mac Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The authors in [16] show that schedule-based or contention-free (TDMA) MAC approaches are more energy efficient and collision avoidance if deployed network topology is not random and synchronized. But, there is a significant scope of delay.…”

Section: Contention-free Mac Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Developing a MAC protocol for outer-WBAN communication for pilgrims’ health monitoring during hajj: A feasibility study

Masud

Bakar

Yussof

2018

IJET

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“…A solution that reduces energy waste of these five factors is the use of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) (Kabara and Calle, 2011), where the time is divided into slots, therefore is possible to establish some slots of activity and put the node to sleep during periods (slots time) of inactivity, reducing energy waste during the time of idle listening (factor 1).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One way to work with TDMA is using polling, especially for implementation in low cost hardware (Kabara and Calle, 2011).…”

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Applying a Hybrid Polling Approach by Software Implementation to Extend the Lifetime of a Wireless Sensor Network

Yano¹,

Oliveira²,

Becker³

et al. 2015

Journal of Computer Science

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Wireless Sensor Networks are networks suitable for data collection in harsh environments, where it would be difficult or costly the deployment of wired infrastructure. In spite of these advantages, such networks often rely on batteries to operate, which may lead to a serious limitation on the networks lifetime. Bearing this in mind, in this article is proposed and tested a hybrid polling approach that reduces the number of frames transmitted by the router node. Thus, the router node lifetime can be extended significantly and hence the network lifetime. The proposed technique becomes progressively more advantageous, when compared to classical polling technique, as the number of network nodes increases. The experimental results obtained using a network with four nodes indicate a network lifetime increase of about 32.14%. Importantly, the sensor network lifetime extension increases the economic viability of the technology and thus makes it more accessible to potential users.

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“…Radio is the major power consuming component of a sensor node which is controlled by the MAC protocol. The lifetime of a sensor network increases by using an energy efficient MAC protocol [3] [4]. An efficient MAC protocol can reduce collisions and improve throughput to great extent.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Locally Synchronized MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

Kaur¹,

Aseri²,

Kakria³

2014

IJCA

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of large number of sensor nodes. These nodes are distributed in a particular area for the purpose of collecting data/queries etc. WSNs have played an important role in applications such as industrial automation, smart buildings and intrusion detection so on. On the basis of energy efficiency, overhead and data delivery performance, WSN MAC is divided into four categories: locally synchronized, nonsynchronized, globally synchronized and multichannel. This paper surveys the latest progresses in locally synchronized MAC protocols.

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MAC Protocols Used by Wireless Sensor Networks and a General Method of Performance Evaluation

Cited by 77 publications

References 23 publications

Towards Developing a MAC protocol for outer-WBAN communication for pilgrims’ health monitoring during hajj: A feasibility study

Towards Developing a MAC protocol for outer-WBAN communication for pilgrims’ health monitoring during hajj: A feasibility study

Applying a Hybrid Polling Approach by Software Implementation to Extend the Lifetime of a Wireless Sensor Network

Locally Synchronized MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

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