Z-MAC: Performance evaluation and enhancements

Shoieb Arshad; Azzat Al-Sadi; Abdulaziz Barnawi

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2013.09.066

Z-MAC: Performance evaluation and enhancements

Shoieb Arshad
, Azzat Al-Sadi
, Abdulaziz Barnawi^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Computer Engineering

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Abstract

Most of the hybrid wireless sensor networks MAC protocols are based on conventional Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) wireless protocols. Z-MAC is an efficient hybrid protocol which alternates between CSMA and TDMA. It utilizes CSMA in low channel contention and switch to TDMA mode in high channel contention. In this paper, we show that Z-MAC does not perform well under high traffic load. It also proposes few enhancements to achieve better performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	485-490
Number of pages	6
Journal	Procedia Computer Science
Volume	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2013.09.066
State	Published - 2013

Keywords

CSM
Energy
Performance
TDMA
WSN
Z-MAC

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General Computer Science

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