A multilevel Scheduling MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks.

Sri Lekha Sampath; S Subashini

Author(s)

Sri Lekha Sampath School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai (TN), India

S Subashini School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai (TN), India

Abstract

Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASN) have attracted great attention in recent years and utilize as a part of oceanic applications. This network has to deal with propagation delay, energy constraints and limited bandwidth which are strenuous for designing a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for underwater communication. There also exists an idle channel listening and overhearing problem which sets down the energy into starvation in the contention-based MAC protocols. Alternatively, lengthy time slots and time synchronization equated by schedulebased MAC protocols, outcomes the variable transmission delay and degrades the network performances. To iron out these problems, we propose a cluster-based MAC protocol, tagged as Multilevel Scheduling MAC (MLS-MAC) protocol for UASN in the paper. The cluster head is a decision maker for packet transmission and aids to inflate the lifetime of sensor nodes. To reinforce the channel efficiency, the multilevel scheduling in data phase is initiated with two queues depending on the applications fixed by the cluster head. The simulation result shows that the MLS-MAC has increased the network throughput and has decreased energy consumption.

Publication Details

Page(s) 437-445

DOI DOI not available

Published Journal: International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Year: 2018

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