TY - JOUR TT - MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS: LITERATURE SURVEY AU - Dener, Murat AU - Bay, Ă–mer Faruk PY - 2012 DA - April JF - Gazi University Journal of Science PB - Gazi University WT - DergiPark SN - 2147-1762 SP - 455 EP - 464 VL - 25 IS - 2 KW - Medium Access Control Protocol KW - Wireless Sensor Networks N2 - Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become an active research area for the researchers. Although sensor nodes have low processor, low memory and limited energy, they have capabilities with random located, self organizing, collective work, local computation. WSNs consist of this nodes. WSNs is feasibility in military, healty, environmental, home automotion and commercial applications. Various Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols with different objectives were proposed for WSNs. In this paper, we first outline the sensor network properties that are crucial for the design of MAC layer protocols. Then, we describe several MAC protocols proposed for sensor networks emphasizing their strengths and weakness. Also, we presented security problems and solutions on MAC protocol. Finally, we point out open research issues of MAC layer design. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/gujs/issue//264338 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/230975 ER -