Effect of polling interval distributions on the performance of MAC protocols in wireless sensor networks

Faculty / School

Faculty of Computer Sciences (FCS)

Department

Department of Computer Science

Was this content written or created while at IBA?

Yes

Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Author Affiliation

  • Shama Siddiqui is Ph.D. Scholar at the Faculty of Computer Science, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
  • Sayeed Ghani is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
  • Anwar Ahmed Khan is Ph.D. Scholar at the Faculty of Computer Science, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Conference Name

International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing

Conference Location

Torino, Italy

Conference Dates

10-12 July 2017

ISBN/ISSN

85026391198 (Scopus)

First Page

573

Last Page

579

Publisher

Springer, Cham

Abstract / Description

Channel polling activity in Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) might result in degrading the network performance if the polling intervals are not efficiently selected. Various synchronous and asynchronous MAC protocols have been proposed in the past with the goal of aligning the polling instants at receivers with the transmission time of sender nodes. This paper aims at studying the influence of asynchronous exponentially generated polling intervals on the performance of MAC protocols in WSNs. The suggested asynchronous polling scheme has been implemented in Tiny-OS for Mica2 platform. Avrora simulator has been used for the performance evaluation of the suggested channel polling scheme, in terms of energy consumption and delay. In order to validate the concept, the proposed scheme has been compared with a state-of-art protocol SCP-MAC. It has been found that the proposed scheme outperforms SCP-MAC mainly due to reducing the contention and synchronization overhead.

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Siddiqui, S., Ghani, S., & Khan, A. A. (2017, July). Effect of Polling Interval Distributions on the Performance of MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks. In International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 573-579). Springer, Cham.

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