TITLE:
On the Development of Realistic Cross Layer Communication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
AUTHORS:
Shalli Rani, Jyoteesh Malhotra, Rajneesh Talwar
KEYWORDS:
Cross Layer, Routing layer, MAC layer, Physical Layer, Time, Frame Reception Probability
JOURNAL NAME:
Wireless Sensor Network,
Vol.6 No.5,
May
29,
2014
ABSTRACT: Traditional protocols in
wireless sensor networks follow the strict layering techniques which lead to
the degradation in performance of the QoS (Quality of Service) parameters.
Battery powered tiny sensor nodes with constraints of energy and guaranteed
time require the efficient communication protocols with innovative and
optimized approach to attain the objectives of WSN. Especially, these
requirements become more stringent with the emergence of novel applications
based on WSN. In order to find an optimized solution to this, cross layer-based
approach which allows the cooperation, synchronization and communication among
the layers, seems to be appropriate. In this paper, a realistic cross-layer
protocol has been developed taking into considerations of MAC and Physical
layer to further optimize the QoS parameters of already developed Energy Efficient
Inter Cluster Coordination Protocol (EEICCP) at the Network layer level. In
this paper we endeavor to concentrate on the enhancement of reliability
parameter of QoS and results are validated through simulations done in MATLAB.