Traffic-adaptive energy efficient medium access control for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Design of medium access control (MAC) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) poses several key factors such as energy conservation and latency. This paper proposes a new MAC protocol referred to as TEEMAC which reduces energy consumption by making the idle nodes sleep to reduce idle listening. TEEMAC is a cluster-based MAC protocol where each cluster is dynamically formed based on cluster-head. Numerical analysis is provided and it shows that the proposed MAC protocol outperforms other existing MAC protocols in terms of energy consumption.