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Efficient Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
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Efficient Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks

P. Koutsakis and H. Papadakis
2006 1st International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, pp.1-5
IEEE
2006 1st International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (Phuket, Thailand, 16/01/2006–18/01/2006)
2006
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Abstract

An efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is critical for the performance of a wireless sensor network (WSN), especially in terms of energy consumption. In this work we discuss the efficiency of S-MAC, a well-known MAC protocol for WSNs, and propose an improvement on the protocol. Via an extensive simulation study considering the cases of both a simple linear topology and a complicated tree topology used for structural health monitoring, the performance evaluation of the enhanced protocol shows that it outperforms the original version of S-MAC in energy conservation.

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