Author : Ali Majid Muhommed, Mukesh Kumar, A.K.Jaiswal and Rohini Saxena

Reducing the delay is one the most challenges within the Wireless sensor Networks. planning of the medium access management plays a very important role in enhancing the performance of wireless detector networks. In Sleep/wake up planning technique, nodes square measure operational during a low duty cycle and scale back finish to finish delay so save energy and extend the network life. I-MAC that involves the assignment of slots for every packet, wake up-sleep planning once combined with cross layer optimization would effectively scale back the tip to finish delay and thereby ensures energy economical operation. Supported optimum energy flow at the cross layer the frame length may well be revised and by this slots may well be reused by TDMA planning.

Keywords: Wireless sensor network; End to End delay; Sleep/wake up scheduling; cross layer optimization.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.4, No.5 (Oct-2014)