ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT MAC PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Abstract

A developing technology called wireless sensor networks is employed in many fields, including healthcare, process control, even environmental control. In WSNs, a lot of little, resource-constrained nodes are used to gather data and send it to the sink node. It is crucial to create medium access control (MAC) protocols in WSNs that are both reliable and power due to the limited resource and processing ability of a nodes. In this essay, various MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks are examined. S-MAC, T-MAC, and Controller area are the three most popular MAC protocols that are the subject of this study. The analysis is based on a number of factors, including fairness, throughput, energy usage, and latency. Key words: Wireless Sensor Networks, MAC Protocols, S-MAC, T-MAC, Controller Area, Reliability, Power Efficiency, Resource-Constrained Nodes, Fairness, Throughput, Energy Usage, Latency