Performance Analysis of Directional Media Access Control Protocol for Optical Wireless Sensor Networks: Aishwarya G. Patil, Prof. M. Nagraj

Performance Analysis of Directional Media Access Control Protocol for Optical Wireless Sensor Networks

Aishwarya G. Patil1, Prof. M. Nagraj2

1Aishwarya G. Patil, M. Tech. (DCN), IV-Sem, Dept. of E&CE, South East Asian College of Engineering and Technology,

Bangalore , (Karnataka State) India

2Professor M. Nagraj, Head, Dept. of E&CE, South East Asian College of Engineering and Technology, Bangalore ,

(Karnataka State) India

Abstract- In the present paper the authors have carried out the performance analysis of directional media access control (DMAC) protocol for optical wireless sensor networks developed around a microcontroller. In the recent years there has been extensive work carried out on the use of radio frequency (RF)  communication for sensor networking. Keeping in view the limitations of RF communications in terms of its security aspects and interference it is of vital importance to avoid the use of RF communication. Till date less emphasis has been laid on the use of optical wireless communication (OWC) for sensor networking because of the widespread use of radio frequency but recent applications show increasing use of O WC in sensor networks. The optical wireless (OW) sensor network technology based on direct-line-of-sight (DLOS) is advantageous in low power applications. In view of this in the present work the authors have developed the OWC system. The modulation, demodulation and control algorithms have been developed. See More