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A Collision Avoidance Based Energy Efficient Medium Access Control Protocol for Clustered Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are typically deployed in energy constrained environments where recharging energy sources and replacing batteries are not viable. This makes energy efficiency in UWSNs a crucial directive to be followed during Medium Access Control (MAC) design. Multiplexing and scheduling based protocols are not ideal for UWSNs because of their strict synchronization requirements, longer latencies and constrained bandwidth.This paper presents the development and simulation analysis of a novel cross-layer communication based MAC protocol called Energy Efficient Collision Avoidance (EECA) MAC protocol. EECA-MAC protocol works on the principle of adaptive power control, controlling the transmission power based on the signal strength at the receiver. EECA-MAC enhances the conventional 4-way handshake to reduce carrier sensing by implementing an enhanced Request to Send (RTS) and Clear to Send (CTS) handshake and an improved back-off algorithm.Simulation analysis shows that the measures taken to achieve energy efficiency have a direct effect on the number of packet retransmissions. Compared to the Medium Access with Collision Avoidance (MACA) protocol, EECA-MAC shows a 40% reduction in the number of packets that are delivered after retransmissions. This reduction, coupled with the reduced signal interference, results in a 16% drop in the energy utilized by the nodes for data transmission
Efficient Retransmission QoS-Aware MAC Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks
In this paper, an Efficient Retransmission Random Access Protocol (ERRAP) is designed that combines scheme of collision avoidance and energy management for low-cost, short-range wireless radios and low-energy sensor nodes applications. This protocol focuses on efficient Media Access Control (MAC) schemes to provide autonomous Quality of Service (QoS) to the sensor nodes in one-hop QoS retransmission group in WSNs where the source nodes do not have receiver circuits. These sensor nodes can only transmit data to a destination node, but cannot receive acknowledgement or control signals from the destination node. The proposed scheme ERRAP provides QoS to the nodes which work independently on predefined time by allowing them to transmit each packet an optimal number of times within a given period. Our simulation results demonstrate the superiority of ERRAP scheme which increases the delivery probability and reduces the energy consumption
Energy efficient distributed receiver based cooperative medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks.
M.Sc.Eng. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2013.Wireless sensor networks are battery operated computing and sensing devices that collaborate to
achieve a common goal for a specific application. They are formed by a cluster of sensor nodes
where each sensor node is composed of a single chip with embedded memory (microprocessor), a
transceiver for transmission and reception (resulting in the most energy consumption), a sensor device
for event detection and a power source to keep the node alive. Due to the environmental nature
of their application, it is not feasible to change or charge the power source once a sensor node is deployed.
The main design objective in WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks) is to define effective and
efficient strategies to conserve energy for the nodes in the network. With regard to the transceiver,
the highest consumer of energy in a sensor node, the factors contributing to energy consumption in
wireless sensor networks include idle listening, where nodes keep listening on the channel with no
data to receive; ovehearing, where nodes hears or intercept data that is meant for a different node;
and collision, which occurs at the sink node when it receives data from different nodes at the same
time. These factors all arise during transmission or reception of data in the Transceiver module in
wireless sensor networks.
A MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol is one of the techniques that enables successful operation
while minimizing the energy consumption in the network. Its task is to avoid collision,
reduce overhearing and to reduce idle listening by properly managing the state of each node in the
network. The aim, when designing a MAC protocol for WSNs is to achieve a balance amongst
minimum energy consumption, minimum latency, maximum fault-tolerance and providing QoS
(Quality of Service).
To carefully achieve this balance, this dissertation has proposed, designed, simulated and analyzed
a new cooperative MAC scheme with an overhearing avoidance technique with the aim of
minimizing energy consumption by attempting to minimize the overhearing in the WSN. The new
MAC protocol for WSNs supports the cooperative diversity and overhearing communications in
order to reduce the effects of energy consumption thus increase the network lifetime, providing improved
communication reliability and further mitigating the effects of multipath fading in WSNs.
The MAC scheme in this work focuses on cooperation with overhearing avoidance and reducing
transmissions in case of link failures in order to minimize energy consumption. The cooperative
MAC scheme presented herein uses the standard IEEE 802.15.4 scheme as its base physical
model. It introduces cooperation, overhearing avoidance, receiver based relay node selection and a Markov-based channel state estimation. The performance analysis of the developed Energy Efficient
Distributed Receiver based MAC (E2DRCMAC) protocol for WSNs shows an improvement
from the standard IEEE 802.15.4 MAC layer with regard to the energy consumption, throughput,
reliability of message delivery, bit error rates, system capacity, packet delay, packet error rates, and
packet delivery ratios
Simulation Analysis of Medium Access Techniques
This paper presents comparison of Access Techniques used in Medium Access
Control (MAC) protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). Comparison is
performed between Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division
Multiple Access (FDMA), Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
(CSMA/CA), Pure ALOHA and Slotted ALOHA (S-ALOHA). Performance metrics used for
comparison are throughput (T), delay (D) and offered load (G). The main goal
for comparison is to show which technique gives highest Throughput and lowest
Delay with increase in Load. Energy efficiency is major issue in WBAN that is
why there is need to know which technique performs best for energy conservation
and also gives minimum delay.Comment: NGWMN with 7th IEEE International Conference on Broadband and
Wireless Computing, Com- munication and Applications (BWCCA 2012), Victoria,
Canada, 201
An efficient scalable scheduling mac protocol for underwater sensor networks
Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs) utilise acoustic waves with comparatively lower loss and longer range than those of electromagnetic waves. However, energy remains a challenging issue in addition to long latency, high bit error rate, and limited bandwidth. Thus, collision and retransmission should be efficiently handled at Medium Access Control (MAC) layer in order to reduce the energy cost and also to improve the throughput and fairness across the network. In this paper, we propose a new reservation-based distributed MAC protocol called ED-MAC, which employs a duty cycle mechanism to address the spatial-temporal uncertainty and the hidden node problem to effectively avoid collisions and retransmissions. ED-MAC is a conflict-free protocol, where each sensor schedules itself independently using local information. Hence, ED-MAC can guarantee conflict-free transmissions and receptions of data packets. Compared with other conflict-free MAC protocols, ED-MAC is distributed and more reliable, i.e., it schedules according to the priority of sensor nodes which based on their depth in the network. We then evaluate design choices and protocol performance through extensive simulation to study the load effects and network scalability in each protocol. The results show that ED-MAC outperforms the contention-based MAC protocols and achieves a significant improvement in terms of successful delivery ratio, throughput, energy consumption, and fairness under varying offered traffic and number of nodes
Comparison of CSMA based MAC protocols of wireless sensor networks
Energy conservation has been an important area of interest in Wireless Sensor
networks (WSNs). Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols play an important role
in energy conservation. In this paper, we describe CSMA based MAC protocols for
WSN and analyze the simulation results of these protocols. We implemented
S-MAC, T-MAC, B-MAC, B-MAC+, X-MAC, DMAC and Wise-MAC in TOSSIM, a simulator
which unlike other simulators simulates the same code running on real hardware.
Previous surveys mainly focused on the classification of MAC protocols
according to the techniques being used or problem dealt with and presented a
theoretical evaluation of protocols. This paper presents the comparative study
of CSMA based protocols for WSNs, showing which MAC protocol is suitable in a
particular environment and supports the arguments with the simulation results.
The comparative study can be used to find the best suited MAC protocol for
wireless sensor networks in different environments.Comment: International Journal of AdHoc Network Systems, Volume 2, Number 2,
April 201
Fault Tolerant Wireless Sensor MAC Protocol for Efficient Collision Avoidance
In sensor networks communication by broadcast methods involves many hazards,
especially collision. Several MAC layer protocols have been proposed to resolve
the problem of collision namely ARBP, where the best achieved success rate is
90%. We hereby propose a MAC protocol which achieves a greater success rate
(Success rate is defined as the percentage of delivered packets at the source
reaching the destination successfully) by reducing the number of collisions,
but by trading off the average propagation delay of transmission. Our proposed
protocols are also shown to be more energy efficient in terms of energy
dissipation per message delivery, compared to the currently existing protocol.Comment: 14 page
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