A new approach to channel access scheduling for Ad Hoc networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Broadcast scheduling for TDMA in wireless multihop networks
Handbook of wireless networks and mobile computing
Wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring
WSNA '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications
Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
A Unified Framework and Algorithm for (T/F/C)DMA Channel Assignment in Wireless Networks
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
An adaptive energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
TDMA Service for Sensor Networks
ICDCSW '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W7: EC (ICDCSW'04) - Volume 7
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
X-MAC: a short preamble MAC protocol for duty-cycled wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Ultra-low duty cycle MAC with scheduled channel polling
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Z-MAC: a hybrid MAC for wireless sensor networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Exploiting WSN for Audio Surveillance Applications: The VoWSN Approach
DSD '08 Proceedings of the 2008 11th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools
A traffic aware, energy-efficient MAC protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
DRAND: Distributed Randomized TDMA Scheduling for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
ADV-MAC: Advertisement-Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
MSN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
MH-TRACE: multihop time reservation using adaptive control for energy efficiency
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are battery powered and oftentimes deployed in remote and hostile locations. Energy conservation is, therefore, one of the primary goals of MAC protocols designed for these networks. Contention-based protocols employ static or variable duty cycles to minimize energy dissipated in idle listening. TDMA-based protocols, on the other hand, use reservation and scheduling to minimize energy loss. Further energy savings may be obtained by taking the nature of the network traffic into consideration. Several WSN applications such as surveillance applications and habitat monitoring applications generate bursty traffic. In this paper, we combine the advantages of contention-based and TDMA-based protocols to form Advertisement-based Time-division Multiple Access (ATMA), a distributed TDMA-based MAC protocol for WSNs, that utilizes the bursty nature of the traffic to prevent energy waste through advertisements and reservations for data slots. We provide detailed comparisons of the ATMA protocol with contention-based protocols (S-MAC, T-MAC and ADV-MAC), a TDMA-based protocol (TRAMA) and hybrid protocols (Z-MAC and IEEE 802.15.4) through extensive simulations and qualitative analysis. The simulation results show that with bursty traffic, ATMA outperforms these existing protocols in terms of energy consumption with reductions of up to 80%, while providing the best packet delivery ratio (close to 100%) and latency among all the investigated protocols for several simulation scenarios studied.