Comparative Study on Mechanism and Performance of MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jun Hu · Radio Engineering of China · 2007
This paper analyzes and discusses the recent study on Media Access Control(MAC)protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN).For three types of representative MAC protocols such as SMAC,TMAC and DMAC,of which the characteristic mechanisms are described through many sketch maps,this paper presents performance comparison,simulation and analysis from energy-effectiveness,latency and throughput on networks for these MAC protocols and points out theirs advantages and disadvantages and their application range.Finally,some suggestions for future application and research are given for each protocol.