Survey of MAC protocol in wireless multimedia sensor networks
Juan Luo · Journal of Communications · 2008
Wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSN), as a multimedia information acquiring and processing technology, potential applications span a wide spectrum from military to industrial, from commercial to environmental monitoring. Research on wireless multimedia sensor networks relates to many techniques, MAC protocol is one of them. The characteristics and technical challenges of MAC in WMSN was summarized, the state of the art in algorithms, protocols was surveyed from channel access policies, scheduling, error control and Multimedia packet size, open research issues are discussed in detail, the open research problems were also pointed out. Finally, the simulation tools of MAC in WSN was analyzed and compared.