doi: 10.7763/IJCTE.2012.V4.516
A MAC Protocol for Provisioning QoS and Energy-Efficiency in WSNs
Zahra Zarei1
,
S. Mostafa Safavi2 ,
Akbar Abbasi3
- 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
- 2Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
- 3Department of Information Technology Douran Company, Tehran, Iran.
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.
Keywords
- Energy efficiency
- MAC protocols
- quality of service (QoS) provisioning
- reliability
- wireless sensor network
How to 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. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJCTE.2012.V4.516
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Copyright © 2012 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).