This paper introduces a new protocol routing medium access control(RMAC)that integrates the routing and medium access control(MAC)layer protocol.They can both reduce latency and save energy in the wireless sensor netw...This paper introduces a new protocol routing medium access control(RMAC)that integrates the routing and medium access control(MAC)layer protocol.They can both reduce latency and save energy in the wireless sensor network(WSN)while most others propose protocols that sacrifice latency for energy.To make RMAC fit WSN better,we designed an easy and efficient routing protocol base station flooding(BSF)and then integrated it with a MAC protocol timing out MAC(TMAC)[1],while traditionally BSF and TMAC work separately at two layers.We call this two-layer protocol(TLP).We theoretically proved the advan-tages of RMAC over TLP and evaluated RMAC over NS-2.The simulation results show that RMAC spends half the latency of TLP,as well as consumes less energy than TLP.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.60241004 and 60602016)the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2003CB314801)+1 种基金Huawei Foundation(No.YJCB2006062WL)the State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology.
文摘This paper introduces a new protocol routing medium access control(RMAC)that integrates the routing and medium access control(MAC)layer protocol.They can both reduce latency and save energy in the wireless sensor network(WSN)while most others propose protocols that sacrifice latency for energy.To make RMAC fit WSN better,we designed an easy and efficient routing protocol base station flooding(BSF)and then integrated it with a MAC protocol timing out MAC(TMAC)[1],while traditionally BSF and TMAC work separately at two layers.We call this two-layer protocol(TLP).We theoretically proved the advan-tages of RMAC over TLP and evaluated RMAC over NS-2.The simulation results show that RMAC spends half the latency of TLP,as well as consumes less energy than TLP.
