Survey of MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy being a key constraint in wireless sensor networks (WSN) became a significant area of interest for various researches in WSN. A lot of work on energy conservation at different layers of protocol stack is present till date, of which energy conservation at Medium access control (MAC) layer is c...

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Published in2015 Second International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communication Engineering pp. 92 - 97
Main Authors Verma, Akansha, Singh, M. P., Singh, Jyoti Prakash, Kumar, Prabhat
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2015
Subjects
Duty Cycling
Energy Conservation
Media Access Protocol
Medium Access Control
Receivers
Schedules
Switches
Switching circuits
Wireless sensor networks
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ISBN9781479917334
1479917338
DOI10.1109/ICACCE.2015.29

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Summary:Energy being a key constraint in wireless sensor networks (WSN) became a significant area of interest for various researches in WSN. A lot of work on energy conservation at different layers of protocol stack is present till date, of which energy conservation at Medium access control (MAC) layer is catching a lot of attention. Researchers have proposed several protocols for energy conservation in WSN at MAC layer. This paper presents a survey on some of the popular MAC layer protocols. It also provides a brief analysis of these protocols which could be helpful in future work in this direction. This paper also provides a reference for further research in this area giving an insight on energy conservation at MAC layer.
ISBN:9781479917334
1479917338
DOI:10.1109/ICACCE.2015.29