Proactive Traffic-adaptive Tuning of Contention Window for Wireless Sensor Network Medium-access Control Protocol

Proactive Traffic-adaptive Tuning of Contention Window for Wireless Sensor Network Medium-access Control Protocol
Author: Nesae Mouzehkesh Pirborj
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009
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The ongoing advances in wireless networks have further expanded the boundaries to the new and challenging area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)> Unique properties of sensor nodes such as limited energy storage, constrained processing capabilities and the especially different environments they are usually deployed in have prompted the need of novel protocols in all the layers of the communication stack. A Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is responsible to sufficiently provide access to a shared medium. Therefore effective techniques in order to reduce the probability of collisions while contending for the medium can be established in a MAC protocol for it organizes the specific time slot a node can have access to the channel. The need for further improving the current applied MAC protocols for WSN in order to reduce the probability of collisions while being energy aware has motivated this research. Sensor MAC as the very first MAC protocol for WSN has been designed on top of the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol along with some added features to meet the special requirements of a WSN. However the Back-Off scheme of Sensor MAC (S-MAC) is based on a fixed Contention Window (CW) size. This is known as a significant trouble spot in S-MAC in the sense that the delay produced during collisions and idle listening can be so critical to the limited battery lifetime of a sensor node. IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol follows a static approach for obtaining the back-off time and resets the CW to its default minimum upon just one successful transmission and doubles it each time it faces a collision. While the back-off algorithm of IEEE 802.11 suffers from unfairness for its faulty behaviour in both high and low traffic loads the back-off mechanism in S-MAC suffers from a fixed CW size. Reducing the undesired idle listening time caused by unnecessary long back-off times when traffic is low and also decreasing the probability of collisions in situations with high traffic load due to the fixed CW size in S-MAC have motivated our research. We have tried to come up with a dynamic back-off algorithm for S-MAC that can extract the current traffic information of the network and engage them in estimating the contention window from which the back-off time is chosen. Our approach is a proactive algorithm to get the CW of the neighbouring nodes ready before contending for the medium. The performance of our algorithm has been measured in terms of average delay, average throughput, delivery ratio, and average energy efficiency. It is shown that our back-off scheme has reduced the delay by 47% and has decreased the energy consumption up to above 15% over the current S-MAC implementation. The delivery ratio and throughput have been improved up to 44% and 28% respectively.

Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Jun Zheng
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2009-10-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0470443510

Learn the fundamental concepts, major challenges, and effective solutions in wireless sensor networking This book provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the fundamental concepts, major challenges, and effective solutions in wireless sensor networking (WSN). Distinguished from other books, it focuses on the networking aspects of WSNs and covers the most important networking issues, including network architecture design, medium access control, routing and data dissemination, node clustering, node localization, query processing, data aggregation, transport and quality of service, time synchronization, network security, and sensor network standards. With contributions from internationally renowned researchers, Wireless Sensor Networks expertly strikes a balance between fundamental concepts and state-of-the-art technologies, providing readers with unprecedented insights into WSNs from a networking perspective. It is essential reading for a broad audience, including academic researchers, research engineers, and practitioners in industry. It is also suitable as a textbook or supplementary reading for electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science courses at the graduate level.

Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Kazem Sohraby
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2007-04-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0470112751

Infrastructure for Homeland Security Environments Wireless Sensor Networks helps readers discover the emerging field of low-cost standards-based sensors that promise a high order of spatial and temporal resolution and accuracy in an ever-increasing universe of applications. It shares the latest advances in science and engineering paving the way towards a large plethora of new applications in such areas as infrastructure protection and security, healthcare, energy, food safety, RFID, ZigBee, and processing. Unlike other books on wireless sensor networks that focus on limited topics in the field, this book is a broad introduction that covers all the major technology, standards, and application topics. It contains everything readers need to know to enter this burgeoning field, including current applications and promising research and development; communication and networking protocols; middleware architecture for wireless sensor networks; and security and management. The straightforward and engaging writing style of this book makes even complex concepts and processes easy to follow and understand. In addition, it offers several features that help readers grasp the material and then apply their knowledge in designing their own wireless sensor network systems: * Examples illustrate how concepts are applied to the development and application of * wireless sensor networks * Detailed case studies set forth all the steps of design and implementation needed to solve real-world problems * Chapter conclusions that serve as an excellent review by stressing the chapter's key concepts * References in each chapter guide readers to in-depth discussions of individual topics This book is ideal for networking designers and engineers who want to fully exploit this new technology and for government employees who are concerned about homeland security. With its examples, it is appropriate for use as a coursebook for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.

Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Fei Hu
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2010-05-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1439882665

Written by award-winning engineers whose research has been sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), IBM, and Cisco's University Research Program, Wireless Sensor Networks: Principles and Practice addresses everything product developers and technicians need to know to navigate the field. It provides an all-inclusive examina

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Holger Karl
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2007-10-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0470519231

Learn all you need to know about wireless sensor networks! Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the nuts and bolts of wireless sensor networks. The authors give an overview of the state-of-the-art, putting all the individual solutions into perspective with one and other. Numerous practical examples, case studies and illustrations demonstrate the theory, techniques and results presented. The clear chapter structure, listing learning objectives, outline and summarizing key points, help guide the reader expertly through the material. Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks: Covers architecture and communications protocols in detail with practical implementation examples and case studies. Provides an understanding of mutual relationships and dependencies between different protocols and architectural decisions. Offers an in-depth investigation of relevant protocol mechanisms. Shows which protocols are suitable for which tasks within a wireless sensor network and in which circumstances they perform efficiently. Features an extensive website with the bibliography, PowerPoint slides, additional exercises and worked solutions. This text provides academic researchers, graduate students in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, as well as practitioners in industry and research engineers with an understanding of the specific design challenges and solutions for wireless sensor networks. Check out www.wiley.com/go/wsn for accompanying course material! "I am deeply impressed by the book of Karl & Willig. It is by far the most complete source for wireless sensor networks...The book covers almost all topics related to sensor networks, gives an amazing number of references, and, thus, is the perfect source for students, teachers, and researchers. Throughout the book the reader will find high quality text, figures, formulas, comparisons etc. - all you need for a sound basis to start sensor network research." Prof. Jochen Schiller, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin

Wireless Mesh Networks

Wireless Mesh Networks
Author: Ekram Hossain
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2007-11-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387688390

This book collects articles featuring recent advances in the theory and applications of wireless mesh networking technology. The contributed articles, from the leading experts in the field, cover both theoretical concepts and system-level implementation issues. The book starts with the essential background on the basic concepts and architectures of wireless mesh networking and then presents advanced level materials in a step-by-step fashion.

Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Author: Carlos de Morais Cordeiro
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2011
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9814338893

This book provides a comprehensive yet easy coverage of ad hoc and sensor networks and fills the gap of existing literature in this growing field. It emphasizes that there is a major interdependence among various layers of the network protocol stack. Contrary to wired or even one-hop cellular networks, the lack of a fixed infrastructure, the inherent mobility, the wireless channel, and the underlying routing mechanism by ad hoc and sensor networks introduce a number of technological challenges that are difficult to address within the boundaries of a single protocol layer. All existing textbooks on the subject often focus on a specific aspect of the technology, and fail to provide critical insights on cross-layer interdependencies. To fully understand these intriguing networks, one need to grasp specific solutions individually, and also the many interdependencies and cross-layer interactions.

Advanced Wireless Communications

Advanced Wireless Communications
Author: Savo G. Glisic
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 890
Release: 2007-06-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780470512876

Fully revised and updated version of the successful "AdvancedWireless Communications" Wireless communications continue to attract the attention ofboth research community and industry. Since the first edition waspublished significant research and industry activities have broughtthe fourth generation (4G) of wireless communications systemscloser to implementation and standardization. "Advanced Wireless Communications" continues to provide acomparative study of enabling technologies for 4G. This secondedition has been revised and updated and now includes additionalinformation on the components of common air interface, includingthe area of space time coding , multicarrier modulation especiallyOFDM, MIMO, cognitive radio and cooperative transmission. Ideal for students and engineers in research and development inthe field of wireless communications, the second edition ofAdvanced Wireless Communications also gives an understanding tocurrent approaches for engineers in telecomm operators, governmentand regulatory institutions. New features include: Brand new chapter covering linear precoding in MIMO channelsbased on convex optimization theory. Material based on game theory modelling encompassing problemsof adjacent cell interference, flexible spectra sharing andcooperation between the nodes in ad hoc networks. Presents and discusses the latest schemes for interferencesuppression in ultra wide band (UWB) cognitive systems. Discusses the cooperative transmission and more details onpositioning.

Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks: Applications, Architectures, and Challenges

Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks: Applications, Architectures, and Challenges
Author: Rehmani, Mubashir Husain
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1466662131

"This book examines how wireless sensor nodes with cognitive radio capabilities can address these network challenges and improve the spectrum utilization, presenting a broader picture on the applications, architecture, challenges, and open research directions in the area of WSN research"--Provided by publisher.

Handbook of Wireless Sensor Networks: Issues and Challenges in Current Scenario's

Handbook of Wireless Sensor Networks: Issues and Challenges in Current Scenario's
Author: Pradeep Kumar Singh
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 722
Release: 2020-02-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 303040305X

This book explores various challenging problems and applications areas of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and identifies the current issues and future research challenges. Discussing the latest developments and advances, it covers all aspects of in WSNs, from architecture to protocols design, and from algorithm development to synchronization issues. As such the book is an essential reference resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars and academics working in the field.