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Cross-Layer MAC Protocol for Semantic Wireless Sensor Network

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Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are ad-hoc wireless networks used in many domains involving the analysis of various properties. Along with the growth in the number of deployments of WSNs, there has been an increase in the size of the networks as well. These systems tend to generate a tremendous amount of data that require further processing and analysis. Transmission of data requires a huge amount of energy considering that the components are powered by tiny batteries with a short life cycle. Consequently, energy efficiency is a dominant factor in the performance measure of WSNs. One major contributor to the overall energy consumption of a WSN is overhearing, a condition, in which the same data is picked up and transmitted by multiple nodes. Reducing overhearing results in a marked decrement in energy usage. This paper proposes to use semantic technology for the observation and collection of sensor data. With the use of an ontology, sensor nodes can be remarkably interoperable and configurable in the receipt and transmission of semantic data. Using this interoperability, we introduce asynchronous semantic preamble listening to avoid overhearing in a semantic sensor network. Performance comparisons to LPL by real experiments show stark improvements in energy consumption.

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  1. Department of IT, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, 711103, India

    Sushovan Das & Chandan Giri

  2. Department of CSE, College of Engineering and Management, Kolaghat, KTPP Township, WB, India

    Suman Bhowmik

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All authors examined the energy efficiency of a cross-layer MAC protocol for Semantic Wireless Sensor Network based on Low Power Listening.

All authors examined the overall energy optimization for the whole network for a certain time duration. Here authors deployed 20 TelosB motes in the large campus of the institute where one mote is connected to the base station and two nodes are being used in the router node. All of the 17 remaining nodes were deployed in the range of either router 1 or router 2. The experimental results taken for 120, 180, 240, 300, 360, 420 secs time duration where each event occurs at 5 secs interval. The energy optimization examined for all 20 nodes for the certain time intervals.

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Das, S., Bhowmik, S. & Giri, C. Cross-Layer MAC Protocol for Semantic Wireless Sensor Network. Wireless Pers Commun 120, 3135–3151 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08603-z

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