Design and Development Cross Layer MACRouting Protocol framework for Wireless Sensor Networks.

Abstract

The performance of Cross Layer MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks evaluated in different networks scenarios. We compare the performance of Sensor-MAC (SMAC) and Cross Layer MAC protocol using NS2 Simulations. An efficient cross layer Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is critical for the performance of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), especially in terms of energy consumption and self configuration. The interactions between MAC and Routing layers are fully exploited to achieve energy efficiency for wireless sensor networks. In Sensor Networks environments per-node fairness and latency is less important. S-MAC uses in-channel signaling to avoid overhearing unnecessary traffic. The paper presents performance analysis of S-MAC protocol and Cross Layer MAC with varying traffic load and network density. Our result shows that Cross MAC obtain significant energy savings compared with an S-MAC MAC without sleeping. The source node with cross layer MAC consumes less energy than S-MAC for different traffic loads, use this document as an instruction set.