Title: MAC protocol with energy efficient relay selection algorithm for mobile wireless sensor networks

Authors: D. Sai Madhavi; Y.S. Kumar Swamy

Addresses: CSE Department, RYM Engineering College, Bellary, India ' CSE Department, Nagarjuna College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore, India

Abstract: In this paper, we have designed MAC protocol with energy efficient relay selection algorithm. This relay node selection should minimise the energy consumption and MAC overhead, thereby increasing the lifetime of the networks. In this MAC protocol, relay nodes (RN) are selected based on the MAC overhead and relative energy usage (REU) parameters. The MAC overhead is incurred by handshake signalling, frame transmission time (FTT) and frame retransmissions due to transmission failures. The REU is the ratio of cost of generated and forwarded packets to the cost of generated packets. Thus the relay node selection algorithm is proposed based on the above parameters and the node with least MAC overhead and REU is selected as relay node.

Keywords: MAC protocol; medium access control; relative energy usage; REU; frame transmission time; FTT; wireless sensor networks; WSNs; relay nodes; opportunistic cooperative networking; OCN; EERSA protocol; CBR traffic; mobile networks; energy efficiency; relay selection; energy consumption; network lifetime; handshake signalling; frame retransmissions; transmission failure.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMNDI.2016.081660

International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, 2016 Vol.6 No.4, pp.196 - 201

Received: 15 Jan 2016
Accepted: 28 Mar 2016
Published online: 19 Jan 2017 *

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