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GWMAC- A TDMA Based MAC Protocol for a Glacial Sensor Network

Elsaify, A., Padhy, P., Martinez, K. and Zou, G. (2007) GWMAC- A TDMA Based MAC Protocol for a Glacial Sensor Network. In: 4th ACM PE-WASUN 2007, October 22-26, 2007, Chania, Crete Island, Greece.

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Wireless sensor networks demand the need to design practical and robust communication protocols to meet the application specifications. Our research focuses on designing and implementing an environmental sensor network to be used for sub-glacial study. The glacier is a very hostile environment presenting severe challenges and complications in the smooth functioning of such a network. In light of these challenges, we present a low power sensor node design and an energy-efficient medium access control protocol called GWMAC developed for a network deployed in a glacier in Norway. The general architecture of GWMAC is based on scheduling and time division multiple accesses (TDMA). We argue that for a highly dynamic network such as ours, GWMAC is more desirable over more widespread protocols such as S-MAC and LMAC. In doing so, we perform extensive series of simulations to empirically evaluate our claim. Our results illustrate that on average GWMAC can increase the network life time by at least 63%. This also has a significant effect on the amount of data that can be collected over network life time.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item
Creator/Authors:
Ahmed Elsaify
Paritosh Padhy
Kirk Martinez
Gang Zou
Keywords:WSN, ESN, Wireless Ad-hoc, MAC, TDMA
Research Group:Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science
Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Date:2007
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Performance Indicator:EZ~04~04~04
Citations:ISI: 1, Google Scholar: 8
Downloads (2010):74
ID Code:14415
Last Modified:30 Oct 2011 11:31
Deposited On:16 Aug 2007 by Elsaify, Ahmed

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[1] Martinez, K., Hart, J. and Ong, R., Environmental Sensor Networks. IEEE Computer Vol. 37, No. 8, (2004), 50-56.

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[3] Van Hoesel, L.F.W. and Havinga, P.J.M., Design Aspects of An Energy-Efficient, Lightweight Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Technical Report TR-CTIT-06-47 Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, (2006), ISSN:1381-3625.

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[5] Ye, W. Heidemann, J. and Estrin, D. Medium Access Control with Coordinated, Adaptive Sleeping for Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, (June 2004).

[6] Dam, T. V. and Langendoen, K. An Adaptive Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, SenSys’03, Los Angeles, (Nov 2003), 171-180.

[7] Padhy, P., Dash, R. K., Martinez, K. and Jennings, N. R. A utility-based sensing and communication model for a glacial sensor network. In Proceedings of 5th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, (2006), 1353-1360.

[8] Tseng Yu-Chee, Ni Sze-Yao, Chen Yuh-Shyan, and Sheu Jang-Ping, The broadcast storm problem in a mobile ad hoc network. Wireless Networks, No 8, (2002), 153–167, ISSN:1022-0038.

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