Design of collision aware MAC protocol for wireless sensor network
Ping Han · Journal of Computer Applications · 2007
The wireless sensor network is event triggering network, which contains many nodes. The concepts of same source collision and different source collision were put forward. The collision caused by identical event triggering several nodes' movement was regarded as same source collision and the collision caused by different events triggering different nodes' movement was regarded as different source collision. All these two collisions can cause the decline of network data stream and the waste of nodes energy. Therefore, it is necessary to realize collision avoidance for MAC layer based on existing MAC protocol of wireless sensor. The collision aware MAC (CAMAC) using the idea of filter and power control was proposed. The principle of CAMAC handling different collisions was discussed, and CAMAC was simulated by NS.