TY - JOUR
T1 - Mobility-aware medium access control protocols for wireless sensor networks
T2 - A survey
AU - Zareei, Mahdi
AU - Islam, A. K.M.Muzahidul
AU - Vargas-Rosales, Cesar
AU - Mansoor, Nafees
AU - Goudarzi, Shidrokh
AU - Rehmani, Mubashir Husain
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the SEP-CONACyT Research Project 255387 , the School of Engineering and Sciences and the Telecommunications and Networks Focus Group at Tecnológico de Monterrey .
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the SEP-CONACyT Research Project 255387, the School of Engineering and Sciences and the Telecommunications and Networks Focus Group at Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/2/15
Y1 - 2018/2/15
N2 - The popularity of wireless sensor networks has grown rapidly in recent years, with new directions including healthcare monitoring and disaster response. This increased use in mobile applications has naturally led to new challenges to the design of sensor protocols, especially in the media access control (MAC) sublayer. In order to design a MAC protocol which takes mobility awareness into account, understanding how mobility can be described by mobility models is crucial. Moreover, for applications that transform between static, periodic-mobile, random-mobile, or variable number of nodes, flexibility in design is a key consideration. Therefore, in this paper mobility pattern, mobility models and mobility estimation algorithms for wireless sensor networks are discussed. The state of the art of medium access control protocols with mobility-handling capabilities is overviewed and a comparative study of the most well-known mobility aware MAC protocols is given. Finally, future research directions for mobility-aware MAC protocols are presented. We believe this paper will aid researchers by serving as a reference to orient future research in this area.
AB - The popularity of wireless sensor networks has grown rapidly in recent years, with new directions including healthcare monitoring and disaster response. This increased use in mobile applications has naturally led to new challenges to the design of sensor protocols, especially in the media access control (MAC) sublayer. In order to design a MAC protocol which takes mobility awareness into account, understanding how mobility can be described by mobility models is crucial. Moreover, for applications that transform between static, periodic-mobile, random-mobile, or variable number of nodes, flexibility in design is a key consideration. Therefore, in this paper mobility pattern, mobility models and mobility estimation algorithms for wireless sensor networks are discussed. The state of the art of medium access control protocols with mobility-handling capabilities is overviewed and a comparative study of the most well-known mobility aware MAC protocols is given. Finally, future research directions for mobility-aware MAC protocols are presented. We believe this paper will aid researchers by serving as a reference to orient future research in this area.
KW - Handover
KW - MAC protocols
KW - Mobile sensor network
KW - Mobility handling
KW - Wireless sensor network
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jnca.2017.12.009
DO - 10.1016/j.jnca.2017.12.009
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85039442916
VL - 104
SP - 21
EP - 37
JO - Journal of Network and Computer Applications
JF - Journal of Network and Computer Applications
SN - 1084-8045
ER -