Date of Award

2010

Degree Type

Thesis

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Advisor

Yu, Chansu

Subject Headings

Time division multiple access, Sensor networks, Wireless communication systems, TDMA, WSN, Wireless Sensor Network, MAC, MLA, Mac Layer Architecture, MOSS, Many-to-One-Sensor-to-Sink

Abstract

When evaluating MAC layer network protocols for wireless sensor networks performing simulations of a protocol's operation can provide great insight into the performance of the protocol. In order to prove that a protocol will work in a real setting and not just at the theoretical level, however, there is no substitute for evaluation with a physical implementation. This thesis discusses a physical implementation and evaluation of the Many-to-One-Sensor-to-Sink (MOSS) MAC layer protocol for sink based wireless sensor networks using the MAC Layer Architecture for TinyOS. MOSS is a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) based protocol first proposed in an earlier work. MOSS aims to utilize the strengths and alleviate the weaknesses of TDMA. In addition to discussing and evaluating the physical MOSS implementation, the process of developing MAC layer protocol implementations with MLA is also discussed

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