Performance evaluation of receiver based MAC using configurable framework in WSNs

Abstract

Receiver-based MAC (RB-MAC) is a preamblesampling MAC protocol for WSNs in which a receiver node is dynamically elected, among potential neighbors of the sender node, based on current channel conditions. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of RB-MAC and compare it with a senderbased preamble-sampling MAC protocol by using analytical methods, and implementation in real sensor nodes. We have used Configurable MAC (C-MAC), which is a framework to develop different MAC protocols in WSNs. This framework is realized as a component architecture that can produce application-specific communication protocols. The experimental results presented in the paper corroborate with the analytical and numerical results showing how RB-MAC outperforms sender-based MAC protocols in terms of transmission delay, and energy consumption.

On the multi‐hop performance of receiver based MAC protocol in routing protocol for low‐power and lossy networks‐based low power and lossy wireless sensor networks

“…In some literature different terminologies have been used for Preamble Sampling approach, for example, cycled receiver [8] and channel polling [9]. Some MAC protocols that utilised this idea are, for example, Berkeley MAC (BMAC) [4], Wireless Sensor MAC (WiSeMAC) [10], 1‐hopMAC [11] and RB‐MAC [1, 3]. The sparse topology and energy management [12] protocol uses two channels: a wakeup channel and a data channel and other protocols such as carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) with minimum preamble sampling (CSMA‐MPS) [13], transmitted initiated cycled receiver [8], XMAC [14] and multimod‐hybrid MAC [15] use techniques to reduce preamble length by packetisation.…”

“…In [1] it has been demonstrated that RB‐MAC maintained almost the same level of reliability with less energy consumption compared with a sender‐based MAC (SB‐MAC) protocols. In [3], the authors presented a practical implementation of RB‐MAC and recognised the energy performance of RB‐MAC against B‐MAC [4].…”

Adaptive preamble‐sampling techniques for receiver‐based medium access control protocols in lossy wireless sensor networks

“…Some MAC protocols that utilised this idea are, for example, BMAC (Berkeley MAC) [5], wireless sensor MAC [11], 1hopMAC [12] and RBMAC [3, 4]. The Sparse Topology and Energy Management [13] protocol uses two channels: a wakeup channel and a data channel and other protocols such as CSMA with minimum preamble sampling [14], transmitted initiated cycled receiver [9], XMAC [15] and multimod‐hybrid MAC [16] use techniques to reduce preamble length by packetisation.…”

“…In RB‐MAC [3, 4], a sender node transmits its data without defining the address of a particular node as a receiver. All the neighbouring nodes within communication range of the sender node receive the data packet.…”

“…It has been demonstrated that RB-MAC maintained similar level of reliability with less energy consumption compared with a sender-based MAC (SB-MAC) protocols. In [4], the authors presented a real implementation of RB-MAC and recognised the energy performance of RB-MAC against SB-MAC [5]. In addition, multiple-reception support in RB-MAC makes it suitable for applications that require P2MP (point-to-multipoint) traffic.…”