Open AccessVirtual Grid Spatial Reusing Algorithm for MAC Address Assignment in Wireless Sensor Network
Author(s) -
Ye Tian,
Min Sheng,
Jiandong Li
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of distributed sensor networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.324
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1550-1477
pISSN - 1550-1329
DOI - 10.1080/15501320802001184
Subject(s) - computer science , payload (computing) , wireless sensor network , overhead (engineering) , reuse , algorithm , grid , computer network , throughput , energy (signal processing) , energy consumption , distributed computing , real time computing , wireless , telecommunications , network packet , statistics , mathematics , operating system , ecology , geometry , biology
Compared with the small overhead of data payload in sensor network, the overhead of MAC address is significant from the point of view of energy-saving. A distributed algorithm (virtual grid spatial reusing-VGSR) for MAC address assignment is presented in this paper, which is a low energy cost algorithm and reduces the size of the fixed MAC address greatly based on the mapping of geographical position. Moreover, VGSR algorithm scales well with the network size and achieves the optimum performance by adjusting the communication range of sensor nodes. In typical scenarios, the MAC address size is 5 bits and the corresponding average size is only 3.86 bits, which outperforms other existing approaches
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