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ABSTRACT
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are considered as the appealing research area. WSNs require highly robust medium access control (MAC) protocol to enhance the performance in several application areas, such as intrusion detection, target detection, industrial automation, environmental monitoring, surveillance system, medical diagnosing system, and tactical system. On the other hand, there are several factors that affect the performance of these applications particularly selection of weak MAC protocol. In this paper, we provide performance impairing drivers for MAC protocols, which affect the efficiency and robustness of MAC protocols in WSN applications. We classify MAC protocols into six categories, as compared with previous MAC surveys that only focused on classifying the MAC protocols into two, three, or four major categories. In addition, we show the link of each category with another based on their existing features. Furthermore, this survey provides a detailed nomenclature in which protocols are categorized based on synchronous and asynchronous communication. This survey also discusses the possible threats and some existing solutions at the MAC layer from 2000 to 2014. Finally, we identify the future research challenges and raise directions for controlling these challenges.
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Abdul Razaque
Abdul Razaque is the editor-in-chief for International Journal for Engineering and Technology (IJET), Singapore. He holds fellowship form Higher Education Commission (HEC), and Common Wealth, UK. He also led several projects as a project director for promoting the trend of information technology (IT) in Pakistan funded by United Nation Organization (UNO) and World Bank from 2005 to 2008. Dr Abdul Razaque has also been working as Chair, Strategic Planning Committee for IEEE SAC Region-1, USA and relational officer for IEEE SAC Region-1 for Europe, Africa, and Middle-East. He has chaired more than dozen of highly reputed international conferences and also delivered his lectures as a keynote speaker. His research interests include the wireless sensor networks, design and development of learning environments, TCP/IP protocols, multimedia applications, and ambient intelligence.
E-mail: [email protected]
Khaled Elleithy
Khaled Elleithy is the associate vice president of graduate studies and research at the University of Bridgeport, USA. His research interests are in the areas of network security, mobile communications, and formal approaches for design and verification. He has published more than 300 research papers in international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr Elleithy is the co-chair of the International Joint Conferences on computer, information, and systems sciences, and engineering (CISSE). CISSE is the first engineering/computing and systems research e-conference in the world to be completely conducted online in real-time via the internet and was successfully running for six years. He is the editor or co-editor of 12 books published by Springer for Advances on Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software.
E-mail: [email protected]