Contiki, a lightweight operating system for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizes Radio Duty Cycling (RDC) to conserve sensor battery power. This project implemented and evaluated WPI- MAC, a reimplementation of the Crankshaft Media Access Control (MAC) protocol. Implemented as a new RDC driver within the Cooja simulator, WPI-MAC was compared via simulation against: ContikiMAC and X-MAC. Preliminary results indicate that under three common WSN traffic patterns ContikiMAC outperforms WPI-MAC in terms of energy efficiency and delay, but WPI-MAC yields lower average delays compared to X-MAC.

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Creator

• Pinola, Christopher

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-010913-114107

Advisor

• Kinicki, Robert

Year

• 2013

Date created

• 2013-01-09

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright