Implementation of a MAC protocol for QoS support in wireless sensor networks

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Abstract

Future application areas of wireless sensor networks (WSN5) may include industrial process automation, aircraft control systems or patient monitoring in hospitals. Such ap plications require predictable quality of service in terms of message transfer delay and reliability. Performance of WSN data transport is to a large extent defined b) the employed medium access control (MAC) protocol. Currently, no existing MAC protocol is capable of supporting WSN applications that require deterministic data transport performance. In this paper, we present the implementation of a new WSN MAC protocol that is able to gixe deterministic bounds for message transfer delay and reliability. The protocol is implemented on TinyOS 2.x for a Tmote Sky node using the CC2420 transceiver. Our implementation shows that a deterministic MAC protocol with reasonable energy consumption patterns is practical.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2009
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2009 - Galveston, TX, United States
Duration: 9 Mar 200913 Mar 2009

Publication series

Name7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2009

Conference

Conference7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityGalveston, TX
Period9/03/0913/03/09

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