Do Sensor Networks need Mobile MAC Protocols
Navid Hassanzadeh, Thiemo Voigt, Olaf Landsiedel, Frederik Hermans, Olof Rensfelt · Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology) · 2012
Abstract. There exists a number of MAC protocols targeted for mobile scenarios. These include MMAC, MS-MAC and AM-MAC. These MAC protocols have in common that they seem to be evaluated only in sim-ulation. This might indicate that these MAC are either too complex to use or they are not needed, at least for data collection, the major task of sensor networks. In this paper we show that extending a traditional data collection protocol with lightweight, carefully selected mechanisms is suf-ficient to provide reliable data collection at low energy cost for mobile sensor networks where both sinks and sources move. 1