Performance evaluation of receiver based MAC using configurable framework in WSNs

Receiver-based MAC (RB-MAC) is a preamble-sampling 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...

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Published in2013 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) pp. 878 - 883
Main Authors Vieira Steiner, Rodrigo, Akhavan, Mohammad Reza, Frohlich, Antonio A., Hamid Aghvami, A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.04.2013
Subjects
configurability
delay
Delays
Energy consumption
energy efficiency
MAC
Media Access Protocol
Receivers
Synchronization
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:Receiver-based MAC (RB-MAC) is a preamble-sampling 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.
ISBN:9781467359382
1467359386
ISSN:1525-3511
1558-2612
DOI:10.1109/WCNC.2013.6554679