DS-MMAC:A Delay-Sensitive Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Ambient Assistant Living Systems

作     者：Haiming Chen Li Cui 

作者机构：Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences 

出 版 物：《China Communications》 (中国通信（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第13卷第5期

页      面：38-46页

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学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 08[工学] 081001[工学-通信与信息系统] 

基　　金：supported by the International S&T Cooperation Program of China (ISTCP) under Grant No. 2013DFA10690 the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant No. 61100180 

主　　题：ambient assistant living multi channel mac channel switching slot scheduling channel assignment 

摘      要：In Ambient Assistant Living(AAL) systems, it is a fundamental problem to ensure prompt delivery of detected events, such as irregular heart rate or fall of elderly, to a central processing device(e.g. gateway node). Most of recently proposed MAC protocols for low-power embedded sensing systems(e.g. wireless sensor networks) are designed with energy efficiency as the first goal, so they are not suitable for AAL systems. Although some multi-channel MAC protocols have been proposed to address the problem, most of those protocols ignore the cost of channel switching, which can have reverse effect on network performance, especially latency of data delivery. In this paper, we propose a Delay-Sensitive Multi-channel MAC protocol(DS-MMAC) for AAL systems, which can provide high packet delivery ratio and bound low latency for data delivered to the gateway node. The novelty of the protocol is that an efficient distributed time slot scheduling and channel assignment algorithm is combined with the process of route establishment, which takes the channel switching cost into account and reduces endto-end delay to meet the required delay bound of each data flow. The performance of the proposed protocol is evaluated through extensive simulations. Results show that DS-MMAC can bound low latency for delivering detected events in AAL system to the gateway, while providing high delivery reliability and low energy consumption.