Wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring
WSNA '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications
Medium access control with coordinated adaptive sleeping for wireless sensor networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Versatile low power media access for wireless sensor networks
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
An analysis of a large scale habitat monitoring application
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Hardware design experiences in ZebraNet
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Deploying a Wireless Sensor Network on an Active Volcano
IEEE Internet Computing
Medium access control issues in sensor networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Robomote: enabling mobility in sensor networks
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
X-MAC: a short preamble MAC protocol for duty-cycled wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Health monitoring of civil infrastructures using wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
SensorFlock: an airborne wireless sensor network of micro-air vehicles
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
SensorScope: Out-of-the-Box Environmental Monitoring
IPSN '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Medium access controlfacing the reality of WSN deployments
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Monitoring heritage buildings with wireless sensor networks: The Torre Aquila deployment
IPSN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
The design space of wireless sensor networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks: a survey
IEEE Communications Magazine
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Recent deployments of wireless sensor networks have targeted challenging monitoring and surveillance applications. The medium access control being the main source of energy wastage, energy-efficiency has always been kept in mind while designing the communication stack embedded in spread sensors. Especially, versatile protocols have emerged to offer a suitable solution over multiple deployment characteristics. In this study, we observe to what extent versatility applies to dynamic scenarios in which communications do not respect specific communication paradigms. We first provide a performance evaluation of two well-reputed versatile protocols (B-MAC (Polastre et al., 2004 [17]) and X-MAC (Buettner et al., 2006 [4])) under the conditions of such a scenario. The obtained results convinced us to propose more than versatility and pre-configured solutions, that is auto-adaptation. We then introduce the main contribution of this paper, an auto-adaptive algorithm that allows one to adjust the previously mentioned protocols while the network is operating. We analyze to what extent it outperforms the previously obtained results.