TY - GEN
T1 - Y-MAC
T2 - 2008 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2008
AU - Kim, Youngmin
AU - Shin, Hyojeong
AU - Cha, Hojung
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - As the use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) becomes widespread, node density tends to increase. This poses a new challenge for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol design. Although traditional MAC protocols achieve low-power operation, they use only a single channel which limits their performance. Several multi-channel MAC protocols for WSNs have been recently proposed. One of the key observations is that these protocols are less energy efficient than single-channel MAC protocols under light traffic conditions. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient multi-channel MAC protocol, Y-MAC, for WSNs. Our goal is to achieve both high performance and energy efficiency under diverse traffic conditions. In contrast to most of previous multi-channel MAC protocols for WSNs, we implemented Y-MAC on a real sensor node platform and conducted extensive experiments to evaluate its performance. Experimental results show that Y-MAC is energy efficient and maintains high performance under high-traffic conditions.
AB - As the use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) becomes widespread, node density tends to increase. This poses a new challenge for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol design. Although traditional MAC protocols achieve low-power operation, they use only a single channel which limits their performance. Several multi-channel MAC protocols for WSNs have been recently proposed. One of the key observations is that these protocols are less energy efficient than single-channel MAC protocols under light traffic conditions. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient multi-channel MAC protocol, Y-MAC, for WSNs. Our goal is to achieve both high performance and energy efficiency under diverse traffic conditions. In contrast to most of previous multi-channel MAC protocols for WSNs, we implemented Y-MAC on a real sensor node platform and conducted extensive experiments to evaluate its performance. Experimental results show that Y-MAC is energy efficient and maintains high performance under high-traffic conditions.
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U2 - 10.1109/IPSN.2008.27
DO - 10.1109/IPSN.2008.27
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51249088899
SN - 9780769531571
T3 - Proceedings - 2008 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2008
SP - 53
EP - 63
BT - Proceedings - 2008 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2008
Y2 - 22 April 2008 through 24 April 2008
ER -