Overlapped schedules with centralized clustering for wireless sensor networks
Ammar, Ibrahim A.M. Miskeen, Guzlan M.A. Awan, Irfan U.
Ammar, Ibrahim A.M.
Miskeen, Guzlan M.A.
Awan, Irfan U.
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The main attributes that have been used to conserve the energy in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are clustering, synchronization and low-duty-cycle operation. Clustering is an energy efficient mechanism that divides sensor nodes into many clusters. Clustering is a standard approach for achieving energy efficient and hence extending the network lifetime. Synchronize the schedules of these clusters is one of the primary challenges in WSNs. Several factors cause the synchronization errors. Among them, clock drift that is accommodated at each hop over the time. Synchronization by means of scheduling allows the nodes to cooperate and transmit data in a scheduled manner under the duty cycle mechanism. Duty cycle is the approach to efficiently utilize the limited energy supplies for the sensors. This concept is used to reduce idle listening. Duty cycle, nodes clustering and schedules synchronization are the main attributes we have considered for designing a new medium access control (MAC) protocol. The proposed OLS-MAC protocol designed with the target of making the schedules of the clusters to be overlapped with introducing a small shift time between the adjacent clusters schedules to compensate the clock drift. The OLS-MAC algorithm is simulated in NS-2 and compared to some S-MAC derived protocols. We verified that our proposed algorithm outperform these protocols in number of performance matrix.
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Ammar IAM, Miskeen GMA and Awan IU (2013) Overlapped schedules with centralized clustering for wireless sensor networks. In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications. 25-28 Mar 2013. Barcelona, Spain. IEEE: 33-40.
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