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Comparative analysis of contention based and TDMA based MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks

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Wireless sensor networks have been widely considered as one of the most important technologies that promises wide range of applications in the field of medical, military, environment, home, agriculture, etc. A variety of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols have been proposed for wireless sensor networks. This paper presents the comparative analysis of two MAC protocols–RI-MAC, receiver initiated asynchronous duty cycle MAC protocol which is a contention based protocol and ATMA, advertisement-based TDMA MAC protocol. The two MAC protocols are analyzed using four performance parameters such as end to end delay, throughput, packet delivery ratio and energy consumption.

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We thank Prof. Yanjun Sun and Prof. Wendi Heinzelman for sharing the source code of RI-MAC and ATMA respectively.

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Jain, R. Comparative analysis of contention based and TDMA based MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks. Int. j. inf. tecnol. 12, 245–250 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-018-0152-x

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