期刊名称：International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
印刷版ISSN：1550-1329
电子版ISSN：1550-1477
出版年度：2008
卷号：4
DOI：10.1080/15501320802001184
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：Compared with the small overhead of data payload in sensor networks, the overhead of MAC address is significant from the point of view of energy-saving. A distributed algorithm (Virtual Grid Spatial Reusing-VGSR) for MAC address assignment is presented in this paper, which is a low energy cost algorithm and reduces the size of the fixed MAC address largely based on the mapping of the geographical position. Moreover, VGSR algorithm scales well with the network size and achieves the optimum performance by adjusting the communication range of sensor nodes. In typical scenarios, the MAC address size is 5 bits and the corresponding average size is only 3.86 bits, which outperforms other existing approaches.
