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Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

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Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2017)

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has gained tremendous popularity in various practical applications, in which sensors are fundamentally battery-powered and significantly resource-limited. Well-designed Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols can make great contribution on the performance of the networks. In this paper, we present a survey on some typical or newly proposed MAC protocols which aims at enhancing energy efficiency of the networks. The classification and beneficial characteristics of MAC protocols are discussed. Furthermore, we analyze the protocols’ performance in various fields, and point out the open research issue.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61300237, No. U1536206, No. U1405254, No. 61232016 and No. 61402234, the National Basic Research Program 973 under Grant No. 2011CB311808, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu province under Grant No. BK2012461, the research fund from Jiangsu Technology & Engineering Center of Meteorological Sensor Network in NUIST under Grant No. KDXG1301, the research fund from Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring in NUIST under Grant No. KJR1302, the research fund from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology under Grant No. S8113003001, the 2013 Nanjing Project of Science and Technology Activities for Returning from Overseas, the 2015 Project of six personnel in Jiangsu Province under Grant No. R2015L06, the CICAEET fund, and the PAPD fund.

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    Zichun Wang, Meng Feng, Tiantian Miao, Wei Jiang & Jian Shen

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Wang, Z., Feng, M., Miao, T., Jiang, W., Shen, J. (2017). Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey. In: Sun, X., Chao, HC., You, X., Bertino, E. (eds) Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10602. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68505-2_36

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