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Energy efficiency is a major concern in the design of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and their communication protocols. As the radio transceiver typically accounts for a major portion of a WSN node’s power consumption, researchers have proposed Energy-Efficient Medium Access (E 2-MAC) protocols that switch the radio transceiver off for a major part of the time. Such protocols typically trade off energy-efficiency versus classical quality of service parameters (throughput, latency, reliability). Today’s E 2-MAC protocols are able to deliver little amounts of data with a low energy footprint, but introduce severe restrictions with respect to throughput and latency. Regrettably, they yet fail to adapt to varying traffic load at run-time.
This paper presents MaxMAC, an E 2-MAC protocol that targets at achieving maximal adaptivity with respect to throughput and latency. By adaptively tuning essential parameters at run-time, the protocol reaches the throughput and latency of energy-unconstrained CSMA in high-traffic phases, while still exhibiting a high energy-efficiency in periods of sparse traffic. The paper compares the protocol against a selection of today’s E 2-MAC protocols and evaluates its advantages and drawbacks.
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Hurni, P., Braun, T. (2010). MaxMAC: A Maximally Traffic-Adaptive MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Silva, J.S., Krishnamachari, B., Boavida, F. (eds) Wireless Sensor Networks. EWSN 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5970. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11917-0_19
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