PRMAC: Pipelined Routing Enhanced MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Canli, Turkmen; Khokhar, Ashfaq

doi:10.1109/icc.2009.5199364

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“…PRMAC [6] enables multiple packet transmission in a flow. Every node informs its next hop the number of packets it is going to send including the number of packets to be received from the previous hop for this flow.…”

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IMAC: An Interference-Aware Duty-Cycle MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Employing Multipath Routing

Eskandari

Yousefi

Movaghar

et al. 2011

2011 IFIP 9th International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing

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The main source of energy consumption in the current MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks is idle listening. To mitigate this problem, duty cycling is used. However, it increases data delivery latency. In this paper, we propose an Interference-aware duty-cycle MAC (IMAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks that uses cross-layer information to reserve multiple paths for each source and send data packets along them efficiently. IMAC also handles the existing interference between these paths such that data packets can be delivered in the minimum required number of cycles. Simulation results in ns-2 show that the proposed algorithm has an average reduction of 49% in data delivery latency compared to a current solution called RMAC.

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“…There are some protocols based on RMAC, like PRMAC [6], D-RMAC [7], BulkMAC [8] that try to improve RMAC and adapt it to the burst traffic.…”

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confidence: 99%

IMAC: An Interference-Aware Duty-Cycle MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Employing Multipath Routing

Eskandari

Yousefi

Movaghar

et al. 2011

2011 IFIP 9th International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing

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“…That long Data period becomes a source of energy wastage in low data rate environments, that is, the long Listening period problem. Several improvements of RMAC have been introduced [14,15], but these protocols focused on supporting more data or more hops in a cycle rather than solving the problem. Another development of RMAC is demand wakeup MAC (DW-MAC) [16], which is designed to support dynamic traffic loads.…”

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Low Overhead MAC Protocol for Low Data Rate Wireless Sensor Networks

Nguyen

Yamada

2013

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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We propose the low overhead media access control protocol (LO-MAC), a new low latency, energy efficient MAC protocol for low data rate wireless sensor networks. LO-MAC uses both duty cycling and multihop forwarding from the routing-enhanced MAC protocol (RMAC) to reduce idle listening and sleep latency, respectively. Besides that, LO-MAC introduces a traffic-adaptive mechanism, which is based on the fact that a node can sense a busy channel within its carrier sensing range. This mechanism uses carrier sensing as a binary signal, and effectively notifies nodes of the existence of a data packet. The nodes then either keep their radios on to take part in multihop data forwarding or turn them off to save energy. Moreover, LO-MAC takes full advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless communication and lets a packet have different meanings when it is in transmission range of different nodes. In LO-MAC, not only is a request-to-send/clear-to-send pair replaced with a Pioneer (PION) packet, as in RMAC, but also a data packet can play both data and acknowledgement functions. Therefore, control overhead and overhearing energy are significantly reduced. Our simulation results show that LO-MAC outperforms RMAC in terms of energy efficiency while achieving comparable end-to-end latency.

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“…The multihop forwarding is achieved by using cross-layer information and intelligent wake-up during sleep time in an operation cycle. There are several improvements of RMAC that have been introduced such as [21,22], which can convey more data or more hops in a cycle but still share the basic forwarding mechanism as in RMAC. Demand wake-up MAC (DW-MAC) [9] is an advanced development of RMAC.…”

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ERI-MAC: An Energy-Harvested Receiver-Initiated MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Nguyen

Nguyen²,

et al. 2014

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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Energy harvesting technology potentially solves the problem of energy efficiency, which is the biggest challenge in wireless sensor networks. The sensor node, which has a capability of harvesting energy from the surrounding environment, is able to achieve infinitive lifetime. The technology promisingly changes the fundamental principle of communication protocols in wireless sensor networks. Instead of saving energy as much as possible, the protocols should guarantee that the harvested energy is equal to or bigger than the consumed energy. At the same time, the protocols are designed to have the efficient operation and maximum network performance. In this paper, we propose ERI-MAC, a new receiver-initiated MAC protocol for energy harvesting sensor networks. ERI-MAC leverages the benefit of receiver-initiated and packet concatenation to achieve good performance both in latency and in energy efficiency. Moreover, ERI-MAC employs a queueing mechanism to adjust the operation of a sensor node following the energy harvesting rate from the surrounding environment. We have extensively evaluated ERI-MAC in a large scale network with a realistic traffic model using the network simulator ns-2. The simulation results show that ERI-MAC achieves good network performance, as well as enabling infinitive lifetime of sensor networks.

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PRMAC: Pipelined Routing Enhanced MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Cited by 28 publications

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IMAC: An Interference-Aware Duty-Cycle MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Employing Multipath Routing

IMAC: An Interference-Aware Duty-Cycle MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Employing Multipath Routing

Low Overhead MAC Protocol for Low Data Rate Wireless Sensor Networks

ERI-MAC: An Energy-Harvested Receiver-Initiated MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

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