Presented by: Ambica Sud(07520)

Haifang Feng, Lixiang Ma, Supeng Leng, A Low Overhead Wireless Sensor Networks MAC protocol , IEEE transactions on Networking, 2010.

Energy efficiency is the kernel issue in the designing of wireless sensor network (WSN) MAC protocols. S-MAC is a WSN MAC protocol based on the listen and sleep mechanism to reduce energy consumption. Synchronous frame in S-MAC protocol belongs to control information, so it s better to reduce it as much as possible. In addition, S-MAC protocol adopts virtual cluster synchronization mechanism which leads to the generation of border nodes, and the border nodes will exhaust energy more easily and earlier. The Paper analyzes S-MAC, and simulates LOMAC protocol. The LO-MAC protocol improves S-MAC by decreasing the control energy consumption and thus prolongs network lifetime compared with S-MAC protocol, furthermore, it resolves the problem of border nodes

Wireless sensor networks(WSNs) are composed of many densely distributed sensor nodes. These sensor nodes can monitor environment and collect data. It can also detect and identify specific events. At the end of layouts of the sensor nodes in the networks, they exchange mutual information and form a communication networks. Each node has very limited energy, low processing capability and small storage capacity. The power supply on the nodes usually couldn t be replaced, so on the basis of the energy efficiency to solve the problem of rational share of the network communication channel, that is Media Access Control(MAC), becomes the key technology of the wireless sensor networks. When we design WSN MAC protocols, in order to guarantee the networks long-term effective running, the most important aim becomes maximizing the network lifetime.

Reduce idle listening.

Avoid message collision.

Overhearing

Transmitting control message

Invalid sending When nodes is not ready to receive messages, sending node transmits its message, and at this time sending node will waste energy, so we should avert sending failure as much as possible.

Creating or Designing a MAC Protocol which reduces the above mentioned problems and also the control Overhead encountered in SMAC.

SMAC
In S-MAC protocol, the sum of listen time and sleep time is a schedule period. When the node is initialized, it needs to choose a schedule to listen and sleep periodically. Firstly, it listens for a while ,during this time, if it doesn t receive any SYNC packet, it will choose a schedule randomly and broadcast the schedule as SYNC packet through CSMA/CA mechanism. If it receives SYNC packet in that time, it will follow the schedule of the SYNC packet s source node and broadcast the received schedule as well. If it receives two different schedule modes, it will merge the two schedules, and becomes a border node with longer listen time than normal nodes.

Unlike S-MAC protocol, LO-MAC protocol uses unified schedule, and spends less time to synchronize. It needs some assumptions as follows: The sink node has enough energy Every node in the networkcan receive synchronization packet from sink node. Nodes have uniform duty cycle.

Periodic listen and sleep

listen

sleep

listen

sleep

Two types of Schedule periods:

 Schedule 1- repeated k-1 times  Schedule 2- occurs once after k-1 times Schedule 1

occurs

B. Scheduling process
 Every node in the network has the same schedule

mode as they all receive synchronization packets from sink node and extracts the scheduling type of the sink node, and then adopts the schedule type.

Simulation of LOMAC basic MAC protocol for WSN.. A comparitive study of SMAC and LOMAC.. Based on Omnet++ Simulation Analytical study on the energy consumption and latency Analyze the effect of topology changes

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