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Unified Medium Access Control Architecture for Resource-Constrained Machine-to-Machine Devices

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Jung-Hyok Kwon,

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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Volume 15, Issue 2

Article No.: 40, Pages 1 - 17

https://doi.org/10.1145/2876958

Published: 18 March 2016 Publication History

Abstract

In capillary machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, which is being considered as a feasible network solution for M2M applications, because of physical resource constraints and deployment conditions, an energy-efficient and scalable medium access control (MAC) protocol is crucial for numerous M2M devices to concurrently access wireless channels. Therefore, this paper presents a unified MAC layer architecture for resource-constrained M2M devices in capillary M2M networks [named as resource-constrained MAC architecture (RCMA)], which has a unified (monolithic) framework consisting of essential functional components to support MAC-related operations of M2M devices: multi-channel hybrid MAC (McHM), logical link control (LLC), time synchronizer (TS), and device on--off scheduler (DO2S). McHM provides a baseline MAC protocol for an entire capillary M2M system that combines the benefit of both contention-based carrier sense multiple access and schedule-based time division multiple access schemes, whereas the other three components help in the McHM operations. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the RCMA, we implement the whole stack using the QualNet simulator. Experimental results show that the RCMA outperforms the conventional ZigBee stack in terms of energy efficiency and scalability, even under heavy traffic conditions.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654777.3676437
Bajaj GSingh PLoureiro AKanhere SBellavista P(2019)An In-depth Analysis of the Impact of Battery Usage Patterns on Performance of Task Allocation Algorithms in Sparse Mobile CrowdsensingProceedings of the 22nd International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems10.1145/3345768.3355930(297-306)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3345768.3355930
Lee HKwon JKim E(2018)FS-IIoTSimThe Journal of Supercomputing10.1007/s11227-016-1915-474:9(4385-4402)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11227-016-1915-4

Index Terms

Unified Medium Access Control Architecture for Resource-Constrained Machine-to-Machine Devices
1. Networks
  1. Network architectures
  2. Network types
    1. Cyber-physical networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Volume 15, Issue 2

Special Issue on Innovative Design, Special Issue on MEMOCODE 2014 and Special Issue on M2M/IOT

May 2016

421 pages

ISSN:1539-9087

EISSN:1558-3465

DOI:10.1145/2888407

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Published: 18 March 2016

Accepted: 01 September 2015

Revised: 01 July 2015

Received: 01 April 2015

Published in TECS Volume 15, Issue 2

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Lee SJeong DChoi JKwak JSon SSong JShin I(2024)SERENUS: Alleviating Low-Battery Anxiety Through Real-time, Accurate, and User-Friendly Energy Consumption Prediction of Mobile ApplicationsProceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology10.1145/3654777.3676437(1-20)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654777.3676437
Bajaj GSingh PLoureiro AKanhere SBellavista P(2019)An In-depth Analysis of the Impact of Battery Usage Patterns on Performance of Task Allocation Algorithms in Sparse Mobile CrowdsensingProceedings of the 22nd International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems10.1145/3345768.3355930(297-306)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3345768.3355930
Lee HKwon JKim E(2018)FS-IIoTSimThe Journal of Supercomputing10.1007/s11227-016-1915-474:9(4385-4402)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11227-016-1915-4

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