title: MQ-MAC: a multi-constrained QoS-aware duty cycle MAC for heterogeneous traffic in wireless sensor networks.
abstract: Energy conservation is one of the striking research issues now-a-days for power constrained wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and hence, several duty-cycle based MAC protocols have been devised for WSNs in the last few years. However, assimilation of diverse applications with different QoS requirements (i.e., delay and reliability) within the same network also necessitates in devising a generic duty-cycle based MAC protocol that can achieve both the delay and reliability guarantee, termed as multi-constrained QoS, while preserving the energy efficiency. To address this, in this paper, we propose a Multi-constrained QoS-aware duty-cycle MAC for heterogeneous traffic in WSNs (MQ-MAC). MQ-MAC classifies the traffic based on their multi-constrained QoS demands. Through extensive simulation using ns-2 we evaluate the performance of MQ-MAC. MQ-MAC provides the desired delay and reliability guarantee according to the nature of the traffic classes as well as achieves energy efficiency.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Seocheon, Giheung, Yongin, South Korea.
authors.forename: Muhammad Mostafa
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Monowar
authors.forename: Md Obaidur
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.forename: Choong Seon
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Sungwon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003198:Computer Simulation; D059015:Wireless Technology