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• TITLE: Priority-Based Hybrid MAC for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks

  AUTHORS: Ines Slama, Badii Jouaber, Djamal Zeghlache

  KEYWORDS: MAC Protocol, Prioritization, Energy Efficiency, Throughput, Channel Utilization, Wireless Sensor Networks

  JOURNAL NAME: Wireless Sensor Network, Vol.2 No.10, October 27, 2010

  ABSTRACT: This paper introduces I-MAC, a new medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks. I-MAC targets at improving both channel utilization and energy efficiency while taking into account traffic load for each sensor node according to its role in the network. I-MAC reaches its objectives through prioritized and adaptive access to the channel. I-MAC performances obtained through simulations for different network topologies, scenarios and traffic loads show significant improvements in energy efficiency, channel utilization, loss ratio and delay compared to existing protocols.