Abstract—Reliable environment monitoring and information collection with an energy efficiency mechanism is a goal in new wireless sensor network applications. In some applications, reliability and delay are two important and vital parameters. Lifetime improvement in wireless sensor networks is also a challenging issue. Therefore, in this paper, a new protocol is proposed for solving these problems. The proposed protocol uses CSMA/CA basic algorithm and some simple mechanisms to improve energy-efficiency and network reliability with reasonable end-to-end delay. In this paper the simulation results of the proposed protocol are compared with both S-MAC and 802.11 protocols in the same condition that show better performance.
Index Terms—Energy efficiency, MAC protocols, quality of service (QoS) provisioning, reliability, wireless sensor network.
Z. Zarei is with Department of Electrical Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: z.zarei0631@yahoo.com).
S. M. Safavi is with Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: msafavi@aut.ac.ir).
A. Abbasi is with Department of Information Technology Douran Company, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: aabbasi@douran.com).
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Cite: Zahra Zarei, S. Mostafa Safavi, and Akbar Abbasi, "A MAC Protocol for Provisioning QoS and Energy-Efficiency in WSNs,"
International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 489-493, 2012.
