TC<sup>2</sup>-MAC: an adaptive MAC protocol for wireless sensor network

A novel adaptive hybrid medium access control (MAC) protocol TC<sup>2</sup>-MAC has been proposed. The protocol used binary tree based time-slot-block (TSB) allocation strategy and time slot constrained carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) method to ensure het...

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Main Authors: Cun-xiang CHEN, Zun-wen HE, Jian-guang JIA, Jing-ming KUANG, Zhong-yu ZHANG, Xiao-bo XU
Format: Article
Language:zho
Published: Editorial Department of Journal on Communications 2014-04-01
Series:Tongxin xuebao
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Online Access:http://www.joconline.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2014.04.011/
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Summary:A novel adaptive hybrid medium access control (MAC) protocol TC<sup>2</sup>-MAC has been proposed. The protocol used binary tree based time-slot-block (TSB) allocation strategy and time slot constrained carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) method to ensure heterogeneous sensor nodes or different types of traffic obtain personalized quality of service (QoS). In addition, it provided flexible information scheduling mechanism to improve fairness of channel access and enhance network efficiency enable. Results show that TC<sup>2</sup>-MAC has significant adaptabil-ity to the change of network traffic and network topology compared with traditional time division multiple access (TDMA) based MAC.
ISSN:1000-436X