Implementation of an adaptive energy-efficient MAC protocol in OMNeT++/MiXiM

TL;DR

This paper presents the implementation and evaluation of an adaptive, energy-efficient MAC protocol called TAD-MAC for wireless sensor networks in OMNeT++/MiXiM, filling a gap in simulation tools for such protocols.

Contribution

The paper introduces the first implementation of TAD-MAC in OMNeT++/MiXiM and compares its performance with existing protocols B-MAC and L-MAC.

Findings

TAD-MAC shows improved energy efficiency over B-MAC and L-MAC.

Simulation results demonstrate TAD-MAC's adaptability to traffic conditions.

The implementation provides a basis for further research in adaptive MAC protocols.

Abstract

In recent years, many MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks have been proposed and most of them are evaluated using Matlab simulator and/or network simulators (OMNeT++, NS2, etc). However, most of them have a static behavior and few network simulations are available for adaptive protocols. Specially, in OMNeT++/MiXiM, there are few energy-efficient MAC protocols for WSNs (B-MAC & L-MAC) and no adaptive ones. To this end, the TAD-MAC (Traffic Aware Dynamic MAC) protocol has been simulated in OMNeT++ with the MiXiM framework and implementation details are given in this paper. The simulation results have been used to evaluate the performance of TAD-MAC through comparisons with B-MAC and L-MAC protocols.