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A Directional-Antenna Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005 (ICCSA 2005)

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Directional antennas have been extensively used in designing MAC protocols for wireless ad hoc networks in recent years. Directional antennas provide many advantages over the classical antennas which are omnidirectional. These advantages include spatial reuse and increase in coverage range. One of the main considerations in designing MAC protocols for static wireless networks is to reduce power consumption at the sensor nodes. This is usually done by imposing transmission and receiving schedules on the sensor nodes. Since it is desirable for a sensor network to be self managed, these schedules need to be worked out by individual nodes in a distributed fashion. In this paper, we show that directional antennas can be used effectively to design an energy efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks. Our MAC protocol conserves energy at the nodes by calculating a scheduling strategy at individual nodes and by avoiding packet collisions almost completely.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia

    Shen Zhang & Amitava Datta

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, P.O. Box, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganà

  5. Institute of High Performance Computing, IHCP, 1 Science Park Road, 01-01 The Capricorn, Singapore Science Park II, 117528, Singapore

    Heow Pueh Lee

  6. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  7. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  8. OptimaNumerics Ltd, P.O. Box, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

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Zhang, S., Datta, A. (2005). A Directional-Antenna Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005. ICCSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3481. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424826_72

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