Title: Performance optimisation of multichannel MAC in large-scale wireless sensor network

Authors: Chuchu Dong; Shengzhong Feng; Fengqi Yu

Addresses: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China ' Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China ' Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China

Abstract: Efficient multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocols can significantly prolong the lifetime of sensor networks. In this paper, an energy-efficient prediction-based multichannel MAC protocol (PM-MAC) is proposed for large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs). PM-MAC minimises sensor node's idle listening time without introducing any multihop time synchronisation and channel assignment overhead by introducing a prediction mechanism of the target node'swakeup channel and wakeup time. PM-MAC introduces a dynamic channel allocation to achieve precise and quick resynchronisation when a prediction error occurs. In addition, inPM-MAC, the load can be well balanced on all channels. Finally, its prediction-based retransmission mechanism can achieve more energy efficiency in resolving severe wireless collisions caused by concurrent traffic in large-scale sensor network. The PM-MAC not only reduces multihop packet latency and energy consumption, but also increases network capacity and throughput. Experimental results confirm the outstanding performance of PM-MAC in all testbeds.

Keywords: WSN; wireless sensor network;MAC protocol; multichannelMAC; channel assignment; energy efficiency; wireless collision; load balance.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2022.120271

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2022 Vol.38 No.1, pp.12 - 24

Received: 15 Dec 2020
Accepted: 23 Feb 2021
Published online: 13 Jan 2022 *

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