Browse > Article

Medium Access Control Using Channel Reservation Scheme in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks  

Jang, Kil-Woong (한국해양대학교 데이터정보학과 네트워크 연구실)
Publication Information
The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.34, no.10B, 2009 , pp. 955-963 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a medium access control(MAC) protocol for reducing the energy efficiency and for improving the transmission efficiency in underwater acoustic sensor networks. In underwater environment, the transmission delay is longer and bandwidth is smaller than terrestrial environment. Considering these points, we propose a new MAC protocol to enhance throughput and to manage efficiently the energy of nodes. The proposed protocol operates as a channel reservation scheme to decrease data collisions, and uses a mechanism to control the hidden node problem and the exposed node problem occurred in ad hoc networks. The proposed protocol consists of the slotted based transmission frame and reduces data collisions between nodes by putting separately the reservation period in the transmission frame. In addition, it is able to solve the hidden node problem and the exposed node problem by reservation information between nodes. We carry out the simulation to evaluate the proposed protocol in terms of the average energy consumption, the ratio of collision, throughput, and the average transmission delay, and compare the proposed protocol to a traditional MAC protocol in the underwater environment. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol outperforms the traditional protocol under a various of network parameters.
Keywords
Medium Access Control; Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks; Channel Reservation; Hidden Node Problem; Exposed Node Problem;
Citations & Related Records
연도 인용수 순위
  • Reference
1 M. Molins and M. Stojanovic, 'Slotted FAMA: a MAC protocol for underwater acoustic network,' In Proceedings of the IEEE OCEANS’06 Asia Conference, May 2006
2 I. F. Akyildiz, D. Pompili, and T. Melodia, 'Underwater acoustic sensor networks: research challenges,' Ad Hoc Networks(Elsevier), vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 257-279, May 2005   DOI   ScienceOn
3 W. Ye, J. Heidemann, and D. Estrin, 'Medium access control with coordinated adaptive sleeping for wireless sensor networks,' vol. 12, pp. 493-506, Jun. 2004   DOI   ScienceOn
4 Y. Li, W. Ye, and J. Heidemann, 'Energy and latency control in low duty cycle MAC protocols,' In proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Mar. 2005
5 C. L. Fullmer and J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, 'Floor acquisition multiple access (FAMA) for packet-radio networks,' Jun. 1995   DOI
6 IEEE Standard 802.11 for Wireless Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications, Aug.1999
7 A. A. Syed, W. Ye, and J. Heidemann. 'T-Lohi: A New Class of MAC Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,' Technical Report ISI-TR-638, USC/Information Sciences Institute, Apr. 2007
8 W. Ye, J. Heidemann, and D. Estrin, 'An energyefficient mac protocol for wireless sensor networks,' in Proceedings of the IEEE INFORCOM, pp. 1567-1576, Jun. 2002
9 L. Berkhovskikh and Y. Lysanov, Fundamentals of Ocean Acoustics. New York: Springer, 1982
10 V. Rodoplu, and M. K. Park, 'An energy-efficient MAC protocol for underwater wireless acoustic networks,' In Proceedings of the IEEE OCEANS’05 Conference, Sep. 2005
11 K. R. Omer, 'Time Synchronization in Ad Hoc Networks,' In ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 2001
12 E. M. Sozer, M. Stojanovic, and J. G. Proakis, 'Underwater acoustic networks,' IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 25, pp. 72-83, Jan. 2000   DOI   ScienceOn
13 I.F. Akyildiz, W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, and E. Cayiraci, 'Wireless sensor networks: a survey,' Computer Networks, no. 38, pp. 393-422, 2002   DOI   ScienceOn