Analytic Hierarchy Process Based Medium Access Control Protocol for Multi Channel Wireless Sensor Networks

• Published in: 2023 OITS International Conference on Information Technology (OCIT) pp. 491 - 495
• Main Authors: Adhyapok, Siddhartha, Bhuyan, Bhaskar, Sharma, Umang, Deva Sarma, Hiren Kumar
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 13-12-2023
• Subjects: Analytic Hierarchy Process; Channel; Cluster; Energy efficiency; Media Access Protocol; Multi Channel Wireless Sensor Networks; Process control; Protocols; Throughput; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks
• DOI: 10.1109/OCIT59427.2023.10431210

A medium access control (MAC) protocol for multi-channel wireless sensor network is proposed in this paper. The sensor field under consideration is assumed to be clustered. Each cluster in the network has a random number of fixed and mobile sensor nodes. Moreover, the sensor nodes support multi-channel communication. Data communication takes place in two different phases. The source node forwards data to the cluster head node and then the cluster head node forwards data to the base station either directly or in multi-hop fashion. The channel allocation happens in an energy efficient manner. The proposed protocol has been evaluated for its performance through Matlab 7.1. The proposed protocol has been compared with MCPS and RTMAC and it outperforms these two protocols in terms of energy efficiency and throughput. Future scopes of the work are outlined.