Title: A comparative study of collision avoidance medium access control protocols in internet-of-things

Authors: Sachin Kumar; Pawan Kumar Verma

Addresses: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India ' Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India

Abstract: In wireless communications, different collision avoidance medium access control (MAC) protocols are available to avoid contention, but none of them are accepted as standard protocols to fulfil the requirements of the internet of things (IoT). So, there is a need for well-defined MAC protocols to optimise the channel access mechanism. Therefore, this paper presents the fundamentals of IoT, types of collisions, features of IoT-based communication technologies, and a comparative study of collision avoidance MAC protocols in IoT. This paper first outlines the system model of IoT networks based on a comprehensive study of the reported literature. Following that, types of collisions are discussed. Further, we have provided a comprehensive study of ALOHA, CSMA, CSMA/CA, and hybrid MAC protocols, issues in MAC protocols, and their state-of-the-art solutions to avoid collisions and to provide higher throughput. Finally, future research direction for IoT has been highlighted to underline potential real-time IoT applications.

Keywords: internet of things; IoT; machine to machine; M2M; MAC protocols; ALOHA; CSMA/CA; quality-of-service; QoS.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCC.2024.137409

International Journal of Cloud Computing, 2024 Vol.13 No.2, pp.139 - 164

Received: 11 Jul 2022
Accepted: 21 Sep 2022

Published online: 18 Mar 2024 *

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