TY - CONF Y1 - 2014/// SN - 9781479946549 PB - IEEE Computer Society UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84906351323&doi=10.1109%2fICIAS.2014.6869487&partnerID=40&md5=45ba6bf4c82258e45bcee7f886bb6312 A1 - Ur Rehman, M. A1 - Drieberg, M. A1 - Badruddin, N. CY - Kuala Lumpur AV - none N1 - cited By 4; Conference of 2014 5th International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, ICIAS 2014 ; Conference Date: 3 June 2014 Through 5 June 2014; Conference Code:107042 N2 - Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) may lead to high traffic in network when nodes detect an event and become active to send the data to the sink. Therefore, traffic adaptive medium access control (MAC) protocol for WSNs, with a more strict collision avoidance technique, can help in resolving the issue of collision by allowing less number of sensor nodes to send the data on the shared wireless channel. Probabilistic polling is a receiver-initiated MAC protocol proposed for energy harvesting wireless sensor networks (EH-WSNs), with a channel access mechanism known as contention probability. In this mechanism the receiver sets a pre-condition for the nodes who want to relay their packets to the receiver. Node that satisfies the condition can send their data packets. In this paper, the performance of probabilistic polling protocol for battery powered wireless sensor networks (BP-WSNs) is studied instead of EH-WSNs. Also unslotted CSMA probabilistic polling (UCSMA probabilistic polling) protocol is proposed that uses the contention probability along with un-slotted CSMA/CA as channel access mechanism. The simulation results show that UCSMA probabilistic polling protocol can improve the network performance in term of high throughput and fairness. © 2014 IEEE. KW - Carrier sense multiple access; Medium access control; Probability KW - Battery powered; Channel access mechanism; High throughput; Probabilistic polling; Receiver-initiated; Traffic-adaptive medium access; Wireless channel; Wireless sensor network (WSNs) KW - Sensor nodes ID - scholars4905 TI - Probabilistic polling MAC protocol with unslotted CSMA for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) ER -