一种高能效无线传感器网络MAC协议

介质访问控制(MAC)协议是无线传感器网络研究领域的基础协议和支撑技术.因此,一种能量高效的MAC协议是提高整个无线传感器网络能量效率的基础.针对无线网络中能量储备有限的特点,在分析了现有无线传感器网络节能协议的基础上,提出了一种能量高效的MAC协议.通过动态调整占空比和消除边界节点等方式,提高了无线传感器网络的能量效率,延长了网络的生命周期.     

无线传感器网络MAC协议研究

本文首先从应用需求和业务特性两方面分析了无线传感器网络MAC协议设计面临的挑战.然后,结合现有典型协议,对无线传感器网络MAC协议的研究现状和趋势、节能策略及协议其他特点进行了分析与总结.最后,探讨了无线传感器网络MAC协议的待研究问题.     

基于无线传感器网络的MAC协议研究

无线传感器网络是一种应用极为广泛的新兴网络,MAC协议的研究已成为无线传感器网络中的研究热点。本文对几种典型MAC协议进行了分析,通过讨论其优缺点,指出了当前无线传感器网络面临的挑战,展望了进一步的研究方相。     

一种基于分簇的无线传感器网络MAC协议

本文提出了一种基于分簇结构的无线传感器网络MAC协议.在基于层次式路由协议的分簇网络结构中,通过综合基于竞争和基于时分复用协议的优缺点,将时间划分为交替的随机访问和调度访问两个阶段,在随机访问阶段簇内节点采用CSMA/CA实现无线信道共享.在调度访问阶段,节点根据簇首分配的时隙实现数据无冲突通信.在簇与簇之间采用FDMA避免信道干扰实现网络的扩展.分析和仿真结果表明本协议在能量效率、时间同步和网络扩展上都有所改进.     

无线传感器网络及其MAC层协议

无线传感器网络（WSN）是当今信息领域的一大研究热点，在军事、环境、医疗护理和智能家居等方面有着广阔的应用前景，引起了世界各国的广泛关注。首先介绍了无线传感器网络的相关理论知识，然后对无线传感器网络目前所采用的典型的MAC协议按类型进行了介绍。     

一种无线传感器网络MAC协议的优化方法

依据无线传感器网络生存期主要取决于节点MAC协议低能耗的特点,在S—MAC协议基础上,提出了一种MAC协议优化方法。优化后的协议侦听周期和休眠周期变化是随着网络数据流量而动态变化,这种变化并不是立即生效,而是设定侦听周期次数阈值,如果相邻侦听周期次数阈值内无激活事件,则减小侦听周期,如果相邻侦听周期次数阈值内有激活事件,则延长侦听周期。优化方法仿真显示,节能效果比原有协议有了提高。市场应用趋势,试图把握联通4G在为未来中国通信市场的发展前景,为中国联通4G市场战略决策提供理论参考。     

低占空比无线传感器网络中MAC协议研究进展

无线传感器网络(WSN)是一种多跳自组织网络,它由大量具有有限能力的节点组成,在工业、农业、交通、国防等领域具有广泛应用.为了减少节点的能量消耗,延长网络的生命周期,近年来逐渐出现了基于低占空比技术(Low-Duty-Cycle)的WSN,简称LDC-WSN.在LDC-WSN中,节点在一个工作周期内大部分时间处于睡眠状态,只有极少时间内处于工作状态.MAC协议是实现LDC-WSN中节点睡眠调度的关键,对LDC-WSN保持正常工作并获得理想的工作性能具有非常重要的意义.针对LDC-WSN中MAC协议的研究仍处于起步阶段,是目前研究的热点.对当前研究进行综述,详细介绍和分析LDC-WSN中最具代表性和较新的MAC协议.通过对比和总结当前工作的优缺点,明确了目前存在的问题和难点,为未来更深入的研究指明了方向.     

无线传感器网络MAC层协议的分析比较

无线传感器网络是一种由大量廉价微型传感器节点组成,并通过无线通信方式形成的多跳自组织网络,可用于对其部署区域的某些物理量进行智能监测。由于传感器节点数目较大,MAC协议是保证无线传感器网络高效通信的关键网络协议之一。另一方面,因为传感器节点受到电源能量有限、通信能力有限、计算和存储能力有限等现实条件的限制,传感器网络中的MAC协议又具有一些独特之处。对无线传感器网络MAC协议的研究现状进行较全面的考察,分析比较其中的几种典型MAC协议,并提出了该领域的发展趋势和未来工作的一些思路。     

无线传感器网络MAC层协议浅析

文章简述了无线传感器网络中MAC层协议设计所需要考虑的要素,并详细介绍了S-MAC、T-MAC、PCSMAC、CoLaNet以及ACSEMAC等五种已经提出的MAC协议。通过介绍这些协议的细节,展示了近几年来无线传感器网络MAC层协议的部分研究成果。最后,文章还分析了这些协议的优势和缺陷。     

无线传感器网络MAC协议休眠机制研究

提高网络的能量有效性是无线传感器网络设计的争的能量有效MAC协议休眠机制的现有研究情况,最后指出了该领域的一些研究方向.     

基于令牌的无线传感器网络MAC协议

为了更进一步减少信道冲突和网络能耗,提出一种基于令牌的链式无线传感器网络MAC协议.协议自定义信标帧和数据帧,在传感器节点完成时间同步后,以信标帧中的令牌为控制信息对相邻两个传感器节点进行收发控制,实现数据从链尾节点到链头节点的顺序上传.研究表明,该协议不仅能够满足系统的稳定性要求而且能够有效降低功耗.     

无线传感器网络中的MAC协议及其节能技术研究

由于受到传感器网络节点数量巨大和能量有限的限制,设计一种节能的MAC协议是非常必要的,也是当前此领域的研究重点之一.现给出了无线传感器网络中引起能量浪费的主要因素,综述了无线传感器网络MAC协议最新的研究进展,讨论了MAC层节能技术,为无线传感器网络中MAC协议的进一步研究提供了有价值的参考.     

A synchronous duty-cycled reservation based MAC protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks

To design an energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for the Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) is an urgent research issue since depleted batteries cannot be recharged or replaced in the underwater environment. Moreover, the underwater acoustic channels are affected by hindrances such as long propagation delay and limited bandwidth, which appear in the design of the MAC protocol for the UWSNs. The available MAC protocols for the terrestrial wireless sensor networks exhibit low performance in energy efficiency, throughput and reliability in the UWSNs, and cannot be used in the UWSNs directly because of their unique characteristics. This paper proposes a synchronous duty-cycled reservation-based MAC protocol named Ordered Contention MAC (OCMAC) protocol. The basic mechanism of this protocol is to schedule data transmission by transmitters through the scheduling of Ready To Send (RTS) frames. The protocol eliminates the possible collision during data transmission and improves communication efficiency. The paper analyzes the performance in energy efficiency, throughput and reliability of the protocol by modeling the queuing behavior of OCMAC with a Markov Chain process. Furthermore, the analytical model is validated through a simulation study. The analysis results demonstrated that while providing good throughput and reliability, OCMAC can achieve energy saving.     

An energy‐efficient,scalable and collision‐free MAC layer protocol for wireless sensor networks

Wide range of applications such as disaster management, military and security have fueled the interest in sensor networks during the past few years. Sensors are typically capable of wireless communication and are significantly constrained in the amount of available resources such as energy, storage and computation. Such constraints make the design and operation of sensor networks considerably different from contemporary wireless networks, and necessitate the development of resource conscious protocols and management techniques. In this paper, we present an energy‐efficient, scalable and collision‐free MAC layer protocol for sensor networks. The approach promotes time‐based arbitration of medium access to limit signal interference among the transmission of sensors. Transmission and reception time slots are prescheduled to allow sensors to turn their radio circuitry off when not engaged. In addition, energy consumption due to active to sleep mode transitions is minimized through the assignment of contiguous transmission/reception slots to each sensor. Scalability of the approach is supported through grouping of sensors into clusters. We describe an optimization algorithm for energy conscious scheduling of time slots that prevents intra‐cluster collisions and eliminates packet drop due to buffer size limitations. In addition, we also propose an arbitration scheme that prevents collisions among the transmission of sensors in different clusters. The impact of our approach on the network performance is qualified through simulation.. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

无线传感器网络MAC层协议的对比研究

无线传感器网络是二十一世纪新兴的网络技术，它的出现使网络的发展进入一个新的阶段。针对无线传感器网络MAC层协议的研究一直是人们普遍关注的问题。总结了近年来的研究成果并针对TDMA，IEEE802．15．4，S—MAC，T—MAC几种典型的MAC层协议进行了对比分析，根据其各自的优点提出将来工作的方向和建议。     

无线传感网混合类MAC协议研究综述

在无线传感网( WSN)体系结构中,介质访问控制( MAC)协议负责调配网络中节点的信道接入,具有保障网络高效通信的重要作用。混合类MAC 协议综合了竞争类MAC 协议以及调度类MAC协议的特点,在融合两种机制的优点的同时克服其缺点,为无线信道资源的分配提供了更加灵活和全面的策略。首先概述了无线传感网MAC协议设计要点及分类,然后重点分析了无线传感网中经典的混合类MAC协议及国内外前沿的研究进展,并进一步归纳对比了各协议运行机制、性能及不足,得出混合类MAC协议的应用相关性及差异性的结论,最后总结了无线传感网混合类MAC协议研究现状并指出了未来的研究重点,以期为相关领域的研究人员提供参考。     

Mobility-aware timeout medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), has been under development for a while by the academia and industry. Due to limited computational power, a typical sensor node may experience operational challenges. Moreover, mobility has become an important feature since emergency and healthcare related applications are evolving in WSNs. Consideration of mobile nodes in WSNs introduce new challenges for the designers. In this paper, an enhanced version of T-MAC protocol (a well-known medium access control protocol in WSNs) known as MT-MAC is proposed. Using the capturing fluctuation in RSSI and LQI values of the received SYNC packets, MT-MAC solves high packet drop ratio in T-MAC. By detecting the mobility, a mobile node softly handover to a new virtual cluster without losing connection with other nodes. The performance of the proposed solution is then compared with T-MAC, S-MAC as well as other well-known mobility-aware MAC (MS-MAC) protocol. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol significantly increases the throughput and packet delivery ratio of T-MAC in exchange for a small increase in power consumption. Compared to MS-MAC protocol, the proposed approach can reduce power consumption by 20–65%, and achieve slightly higher packet delivery ratio.     

Towards a classification of energy aware MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks

Power management is an important issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because wireless sensor nodes are usually battery powered, and an efficient use of the available battery power becomes an important concern specially for those applications where the system is expected to operate for long durations. This necessity for energy efficient operation of a WSN has prompted the development of new protocols in all layers of the communication stack. Provided that, the radio transceiver is the most power consuming component of a typical sensor node, large gains can be achieved at the link layer where the medium access control (MAC) protocol controls the usage of the radio transceiver unit. MAC protocols for sensor networks differ greatly from typical wireless networks access protocols in many issues. MAC protocols for sensor networks must have built‐in power conservation, mobility management, and failure recovery strategies. Furthermore, sensor MAC protocols should make performance trade‐off between latency and throughput for a reduction in energy consumption to maximize the lifetime of the network. This is in general achieved through duty cycling the radio transceiver. Many MAC protocols with different objectives were proposed for wireless sensor networks in the literature. Most of these protocols take into account the energy efficiency as a main objective. There is much more innovative work should be done at the MAC layer to address the hard unsolved problems. In this paper, we first outline and discuss the specific requirements and design trade‐offs of a typical wireless sensor MAC protocol by describing the properties of WSN that affect the design of MAC layer protocols. Then, a typical collection of wireless sensor MAC protocols presented in the literature are surveyed, classified, and described emphasizing their advantages and disadvantages whenever possible. Finally, we present research directions and identify open issues for future medium access research. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

RPCP‐MAC: Receiver preambling with channel polling MAC protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks

To design a reliable and energy efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is an active research area due to its variety of applications. There are many issues associated with underwater acoustic channels including long and variable propagation delay, attenuation, and limited bandwidth which pose significant challenges in the design of MAC protocol. The available sender‐initiated asynchronous preamble‐based MAC protocols for UWSNs are not reliable and energy‐efficient. This is due to the problems caused by transmission of preambles for longer duration and collision of preambles from hidden nodes in sender‐initiated preamble‐based MAC protocols. To resolve these issues, the paper proposed an asynchronous receiver‐initiated preamble‐based MAC protocol named Receiver Preambling with Channel Polling MAC (RPCP‐MAC) protocol for shallow underwater monitoring applications with high data rates. The protocol is proposed to resolve data packet collision and support reliability in an energy‐efficient way without using any transmission schedule. The proposed protocol is based on the following mechanisms. Firstly, receiver preambling mechanism is adopted to reduce idle listening. Secondly, channel polling mechanism is used to determine missing data frame during its sleeping period and to minimize the active time of node and reduces energy wastage. Finally, a back‐off mechanism is applied to resolve collision when preambles are received simultaneously. In addition, performance analysis through Markov chain together with its validation with simulation‐based studies is reported in the paper. Both the analytical and simulation results have demonstrated the reliability achievable with RPCP‐MAC while providing good energy efficiency.     

基于节能策略的无线传感器网络MAC协议

由于无线传感器网络的特殊性,针对其节能问题的媒体访问控制(MAC)协议研究越来越受到人们的关注.首先分析了无线传感器网络中能源损耗的原因,接着对近年来典型的基于节能策略的无线传感器网络MAC协议进行了分析总结,并综合其它性能指标比较了协议性能,最后提出了一些未来的研究方向.