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SA-MAC: Self-Stabilizing Adaptive MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

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A common method of prolonging the lifetime of wireless sensor networks is to use low power duty cycling protocol. Existing protocols consist of two categories: sender-initiated and receiver-initiated. In this paper, we present SAMAC, a self-stabilizing adaptive MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks. SA-MAC dynamically adjusts the transmission time-slot, waking up time-slot, and packet detection pattern according to current network working condition, such as packet length and wake-up patterns of neighboring nodes. In the long run, every sensor node will find its own transmission phase so that the network will enter a stable stage when the network load and qualities are static. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate the energy consumption, packet reception rate of SA-MAC in real sensor networking systems. Our results indicate that SA-MAC outperforms other existing protocols.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, 28223, U.S.A.

    Cheng Bo & Yu Wang

  2. Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 60616, U.S.A.

    Junze Han & Xiangyang Li

  3. School of Software and TNList, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Xiangyang Li

  4. Network Center, The Aviation University of Air Force, Jinzhou, 121000, China

    Bo Xiao

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The work of Li is partially supported by National Science Foundation of USA under Grant Nos. CNS-0832120, CNS-1035894, ECCS-1247944, ECCS-1343306, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61170216 and 61228202. The work of Yu Wang is supported in part by the National Science Foundation of USA under Grant Nos. CNS-1319915 and CNS-1343355.

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Bo, C., Han, J., Li, X. et al. SA-MAC: Self-Stabilizing Adaptive MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 29, 605–617 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-014-1453-6

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