Abstract
The applications and utility of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) have increased its pace in making an entry to the commercial market since the last five years. It has successfully established its association with Internet-of-Things (IoT) and other reconfigurable networks. However, in this advent of exponential progress in technology, WSN still suffers from elementary problems of energy efficiency, scalability, delay, and latency where Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols hold the primary responsibility. This paper reviewed the frequently used MAC protocols and studied their advantages and limitations followed by most recently carried out implementation work towards WSN performance enhancement. The paper finally outlines the unsolved problems from the existing research work and discussed briefly the research gap followed by a chalked out plan of tentative future work to address the research gap from existing review.
Highlights
A collaboration of small sensor nodes (SN) distributed in a region to monitor the specific atmospheric parameters is considered as wireless sensor network (WSN) [1]
Research work on Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols aged more than a decade and it is essential to study for the objective of optimizing the system model for issues like energy optimization, time-synchronization, etc
The study analysis presents that the Adhoc on multipath distance vector (AdMDC) and H-MAC yield better performance results and energy optimization
Summary
A collaboration of small sensor nodes (SN) distributed in a region to monitor the specific atmospheric parameters is considered as wireless sensor network (WSN) [1]. Even after the decades of the research work, this problem has not been effectively solved In this problem, Medium Access Control or commonly known as MAC protocols are widely utilized in WSN to solve energy dissipation problems. There are MAC protocols dedicated for both single and multiple channel network structures of WSN [5] Such schemes are essentially meant for streamlining the data transmission to a better communication system for ensuring energy efficiency and scalability [6]. The researches considering duty cycle was not much successful as the majority of them suffer from significant latency This is because no data will be transmitted or received unless and until the sensors come out their sleep mode.
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