Το work with title Efficient medium access control for wireless sensor networks by Koutsakis Polychronis, Papadakis, Hélène is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
P. Koutsakis , H. Papadakis, "Efficient medium access control for wireless sensor networks", in 1st Intern. Symp. on Wireless Perv. Computing ,doi :10.1109/ISWPC.2006.1613558
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWPC.2006.1613558
An efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is critical for the performance of a wireless sensor network (WSN), especially in terms of energy consumption. In this work we discuss the efficiency of S-MAC, a well-known MAC protocol for WSNs, and propose an improvement on the protocol. Via an extensive simulation study considering the cases of both a simple linear topology and a complicated tree topology used for structural health monitoring, the performance evaluation of the enhanced protocol shows that it outperforms the original version of S-MAC in energy conservation.