An Energy Efficient Analysis of S-MAC And H-MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is an interesting topic to the researchers because of its variousapplications. The applications are health monitoring and environmental monitoring, Industrial ProcessMonitoring, Target detection, Target tracking, Energy Efficiency, Disaster Management and MilitarySecurity Systems. The wireless medium requires highly optimized medium Access Protocols to avoidinterferences. Limited resources have driven the research towards energy consumption of MACfunctionalities. Two Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol performances are analyzed by using the MAClayer frame work for wireless sensor networks. In this paper an energy efficient analysis of S-MAC and HMACprotocols for wireless sensor networks is proposed with spatial correlation concept. Two MACprotocols such as Sensor MAC (S-MAC) and Hybrid MAC (H-MAC) protocols are proposed to analyze theperformance of Wireless Sensor Network using four different Parameters such as End to End delay, PacketDelivery Ratio, Packet Drop Rate and Energy Consumption. Performance analysis is carried out by usingthe simulation tool NS2.