@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14557,
	  title     = {Hybrid MAC Protocols Characteristics in Multi-hops Wireless Sensor Networks},
	  author    = {M. Miladi and  T. Ezzedine and  R. Bouallegue},
	  country	= {},
	  institution	= {},
	  abstract     = {In the current decade, wireless sensor networks are
emerging as a peculiar multi-disciplinary research area. By this
way, energy efficiency is one of the fundamental research themes
in the design of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for
wireless sensor networks. Thus, in order to optimize the energy
consumption in these networks, a variety of MAC protocols are
available in the literature. These schemes were commonly evaluated
under simple network density and a few results are published on
their robustness in realistic network-s size. We, in this paper, provide
an analytical study aiming to highlight the energy waste sources in
wireless sensor networks. Then, we experiment three energy efficient
hybrid CSMA/CA based MAC protocols optimized for wireless
sensor networks: Sensor-MAC (SMAC), Time-out MAC (TMAC)
and Traffic aware Energy Efficient MAC (TEEM). We investigate
these protocols with different network densities in order to discuss
the end-to-end performances of these schemes (i.e. in terms of energy
efficiency, delay and throughput). Through Network Simulator (NS-
2) implementations, we explore the behaviors of these protocols with
respect to the network density. In fact, this study may help the multihops
sensor networks designers to design or select the MAC layer
which matches better their applications aims.},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering},
	  volume    = {2},
	  number    = {9},
	  year      = {2008},
	  pages     = {2003 - 2011},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14557},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/21},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 21, 2008},
	}