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A Preamble-Based Approach for Providing Quality of Service Support in Wireless Sensor Networks

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Multiple Access Communications (MACOM 2011)

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Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are usually designed as random access protocols that apply different kinds of backoff strategies since Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) based protocols with admission control are very complex and require mechanisms for synchronization. Without such mechanisms, fair or priority based medium access with Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees can hardly be achieved by existing protocols. Therefore, we developed a random access protocol which uses a new preamble based medium access strategy that enables high reliable priority based access. In this paper we introduce different QoS strategies and their use cases. All strategies can be easily integrated in our protocol to meet the requirements of different target applications. Furthermore, we compare the performance of the strategies with a typical carrier-sense based protocol.

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  1. Network Architectures and Services - Institute for Informatics, Technische Universität München, Germany

    Alexander Klein & Lothar Braun

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  1. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, 38050, Povo, Italy

    Claudio Sacchi

  2. Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Roc Boronat 138, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Boris Bellalta

  3. Tampere Universityof Technology, 33101, Tampere, Finland

    Alexey Vinel

  4. University of Alberta, T6G 2V4, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Christian Schlegel

  5. University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, 38050, Povo, Italy

    Fabrizio Granelli

  6. Simula Research Laboratory, 1325, Lysaker, Norway

    Yan Zhang

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Klein, A., Braun, L. (2011). A Preamble-Based Approach for Providing Quality of Service Support in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Sacchi, C., Bellalta, B., Vinel, A., Schlegel, C., Granelli, F., Zhang, Y. (eds) Multiple Access Communications. MACOM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6886. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23795-9_13

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