Using a Token Approach for the MAC Layer of Linear Sensor Networks - Impact of the Redundancy on the Throughput

El Hadji Malick Ndoye, Frédérique Jacquet, Michel Misson, Ibrahima Niang

2015

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of a large number of sensor nodes deployed in a wide area for monitoring applications. For some of these applications, as pipeline or road monitoring, wireless sensor nodes have to be deployed in a linear manner. We refer to these WSNs as Linear Sensor Networks (LSNs). Due to specificity of LSNs, MAC protocol designed for WSNs, as contention or TDMA based protocols, are often not suitable. Furthermore, wireless node deployment can provide a certain form of redundancy to prevent link or node failures. In this paper, we propose a token based MAC protocol for linear sensor networks in order to improve the network performance. We evaluate the effect of the redundancy on the number of packets delivered to the sink. We show that the redundancy induces a significant improvement both on the delivered traffic and on the FIFO queue size of the nodes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ndoye E., Jacquet F., Misson M. and Niang I. (2015). Using a Token Approach for the MAC Layer of Linear Sensor Networks - Impact of the Redundancy on the Throughput . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS, ISBN 978-989-758-086-4, pages 122-129. DOI: 10.5220/0005243501220129

in Bibtex Style

@conference{sensornets15,
author={El Hadji Malick Ndoye and Frédérique Jacquet and Michel Misson and Ibrahima Niang},
title={Using a Token Approach for the MAC Layer of Linear Sensor Networks - Impact of the Redundancy on the Throughput},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,},
year={2015},
pages={122-129},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005243501220129},
isbn={978-989-758-086-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,
TI - Using a Token Approach for the MAC Layer of Linear Sensor Networks - Impact of the Redundancy on the Throughput
SN - 978-989-758-086-4
AU - Ndoye E.
AU - Jacquet F.
AU - Misson M.
AU - Niang I.
PY - 2015
SP - 122
EP - 129
DO - 10.5220/0005243501220129