Al-Rikabi, Yasser Kareem and Chit, Suwannit Chareen and Omar, Mohd Hasbullah (2014) An energy-efficient MAC protocol to conserve energy in wireless sensor networks. In: Knowledge Management International Conference 2014 (KMICe2014), 12-15 August 2014, Langkawi, Malaysia.

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Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) nodes are widely used in various sectors nowadays. WSN nodes experience a lot of problems that impact on battery life for sensor node such as, overhearing, collision,hidden node, idle listening, schedule drifts, and high latency. Moreover, WSN nodes are strongly dependent on its limited battery power, and replenishing it again is difficult as nodes are deployed in an ad-hoc manner.Energy consumption is the most important factor to determine the life of a sensor network because usually sensor nodes are driven by low battery resources. An approach to conserve energy in WSN nodes is to carefully design its Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol. Several previous work has been carried out to mitigate many problems that impact on battery life for sensor node such as overhearing, collision, and hidden node. This paper attempts to design Energy-Efficient MAC (EEMAC), a hybrid energy-efficient protocol to address the energy issues that are related to WSNs nodes.This protocol aims to reduce idle listening times as well as lowering the latency time thus reducing the energy consumption.The proposed protocol has been developed and analyzed using the ns-2 Simulator.A mathematical model was used to prove the efficiency of the proposed protocol. We have compared our proposed EE-MAC protocol with the existing contention-based IEEE 802.11 PSM protocol.The simulation results illustrate that the EE-MAC has achieved better energy conservation than the IEEE 802.11 PSM protocol.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	ISBN: 9789832078937 Organized by: School of Computing, UUM CAS, Universiti Utara Malaysia,
Uncontrolled Keywords:	EE-MAC, WSNs, Medium Access Control, Energy-Efficiency, ns-2, IEEE 802.11 PSM protocol
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions:	School of Computing
Depositing User:	Mr. Suwannit Chareen Chit Sop Chit
Date Deposited:	01 Jul 2015 07:30
Last Modified:	28 Apr 2016 00:58
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/14722

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