Y.C. Tay, Kyle Jamieson, Hari Balakrishnan
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, August 2004
Recent research in sensor networks, wireless location systems, and power-saving in ad hoc networks suggests that some applications wireless traffic be modeled as an event-driven workload: a workload where many nodes send traffic at the time of an event, not all reports of the event are needed by higher-level protocols and applications, and events occur infrequently relative to the time needed to deliver all required event reports. We identify several applications that motivate the event-driven workload, and propose a protocol that is optimal for this workload.
Our proposed protocol, named CSMA/p*, is non-persistent CSMA with
a carefully-chosen non-uniform probability distribution p* that
nodes use to randomly select contention slots. We show that
CSMA/p* is optimal in the sense that p* is the unique probability
distribution that minimizes collisions between contending
stations. CSMA/p* has knowledge of N. We conclude with an
exploration of how p* could be used to build a more practical MAC
protocol via a probability distribution with no knowledge of N that
approximates p*.
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Bibtex Entry:
@article{tay2004collision-minimizing, author = "Y.C. Tay and Kyle Jamieson and Hari Balakrishnan", title = "{Collision-Minimizing CSMA and its Applications to Wireless Sensor Networks}", journal = {IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications}, year = {2004}, month = {August}, }