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An Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors :
Zhang Lin
Wang Yumei
Liu Bing
Zhang Hui-min
Source :
VTC Spring
Publication Year :
2007
Publisher :
IEEE, 2007.

Abstract

This paper presents a contention-based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol, Synchronized Sensor Medium Access Control (SS-MAC), for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). To solve the high energy consumption problem in boundary nodes between virtual clusters in Sensor-MAC (S-MAC), SS-MAC introduces the global synchronization of schedules in WSNs. The novelty of our protocol is that it can improve the connectivity of WSNs compared with S-MAC. We illustrate the efficiency and scalability of the scheme via simulation

Details

ISSN :
15502252
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
2007 IEEE 65th Vehicular Technology Conference - VTC2007-Spring
Accession number :
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