QoS-Centric Collision Window Shaping for CSMA-CA MAC Protocol

Collision Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) has been preferred to Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) as medium access scheme for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN) in the scenarios where the traffic is bursty in nature and multiple consecutive and contiguous packets generated from the same collision neighborhood need to be sent. Protocols based on nonuniform probability distribution do not perform well in high contention and heterogeneous traffic scenarios due to nonadaptive nature to contention neighborhood. In this paper we have proposed a scheme to adapt the Contention Window (CW) size according to the collision neighborhood population complying with the application specific latency and success probability constraints. This scheme shows improved performance compared with SIFT, a stereotype of non-uniform probability based CSMA protocol and can be deployed with any CSMA-CA (CSMA with Collision Avoidance) based backoff algorithm.

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