A multi-hop based media access control protocol using magnetic fields in wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:

  • EuiHoon Jeong;YunJae Won;SunHee Kim;SeungOk Lim;Young-Cheol Bang

  • Affiliations:

  • Korea Polytechnic University, Siheung-City, Kyonggi-Do, Korea;Wireless Network Research Center Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Seoul, Korea;Wireless Network Research Center Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Seoul, Korea;Wireless Network Research Center Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Seoul, Korea;Korea Polytechnic University, Siheung-City, Kyonggi-Do, Korea

  • Venue:
  • ICCSA'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Computational science and its applications - Volume Part IV
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Recently wireless communication technology using magnetic fields has been proposed as an alternative communication technology for wireless sensor network in unfavorable underwater or underground environment. However, the previous works have limit on communication distance between nodes since they only consider direct communication between nodes. In this paper, we propose a multi-hop based media access control protocol for magnetic field communication to extend communication distance between nodes. The proposed scheme provides a relay node that can relay packets from source nodes to multi-hop distance destination node. We analyze the performance of the proposed scheme by simulation study with qualnet simulator.