traffic-oriented scheduling algorithm for aerial platform based routing and mac for wsns
The purpose of this paper is to present a modified scheduling algorithm, called Traffic-oriented scheduling algorithm for Aerial platform based Routing and MAC (APRMAC) protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to maximise throughput. This algorithm keeps the characteristics of APRMAC, which is energy efficient, contention free and inherent routes establishment. The advantages of APRMAC and the novel scheduling algorithm are analysed. A simulation is carried out for both crossing chain and random topologies to validate the scheme and for comparison of performance with the original delay-oriented APRMAC and a well-known schedule-based MAC protocol, TRAMA. The results show that APRMAC offers higher energy efficiency against TRAMA. The results also show that the traffic-oriented scheduling algorithm can provide better throughput performance then the original delay-oriented one.
aerial platforms wireless sensor networks medium access control energy-efficiency