Opportunistic Concurrency: A MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions (2015)
摘要
How to shorten the time for channel waiting is critical to avoid network contention. Traditional MAC protocols with CSMA often assume that a transmission must be deferred if the channel is busy, so they focus more on the optimization of serial transmission performance. Recent advances in physical layer, however, allows a receiver to reengage onto a stronger incoming signal from an ongoing transmission or interference, and thus shows the potential of parallel transmissions. Indeed, even if the channel is busy, a node has opportunities to carry out a successful transmission. In this study, we propose opportunistic concurrency (OPC), a new MAC layer scheme, which enables sensor nodes to capture the opportunistic concurrency and carry out parallel transmissions instead of always waiting for a clear channel. Based on local concurrency map, which encodes the interactions among different links, OPC utilizes concurrency control algorithm to make transmission decision distributedly. Our experiments on a testbed consisting of 60 TelosB sensor motes identify the transmission opportunities in WSNs with OPC. Evaluation results show that OPC achieves a 17 percent reduction in packet latency, a 9.4 percent addition in throughput and a 10 percent reduction in power consumption compared with existing approaches.
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concurrent mac protocol,wireless sensor networks,interference,concurrent computing,opc,signal to noise ratio
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