Title: Dynamic priority scheduling-based MAC for wireless sensor networks

Authors: Jiming Chen, Youxian Sun

Addresses: National Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China. ' National Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China

Abstract: In this paper, one of the most important issues supporting real-time QoS in wireless sensor networks is discussed, which is fundamentally a challenging problem. A novel MAC protocol based on dynamic priority scheduling is proposed for wireless sensor networks, whose packets competes media with a dynamic priority. Two different platforms based experiment projects including detailed hardware and software designs are designed to evaluate the proposed MAC protocol. Experiment results indicate that our proposal is more effective than hard real-time scheduling in resource-limited wireless sensor networks.

Keywords: dynamic priority scheduling; wireless sensor networks; WSNs; MAC; Motes MICA 2; wireless networks; quality of service; QoS; medium access control.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2007.012976

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2007 Vol.2 No.1/2, pp.3 - 8

Published online: 02 Apr 2007 *

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