Medium Access Control Protocol for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks provide wide variety of real time application. It can collect and process vast amount of data from environment like pollution, traffic conditions, weather, industrial process monitoring, and condition based maintenance. But due to lower sensing range of these networks, dense networks are required, which bring the necessity to achieve an efficient medium access (MAC) protocol subject to power constraints. Various MAC protocols with different objectives were proposed for wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we have proposed– MAC protocol for demonstrating saving in the energy consumption from all the sources of energy waste like idle listening, collision, overhearing and control overhead