Media Access Control in Large-Scale Internet of Things: A Review

摘要: The Media Access Control (MAC) serves as an imperative part of wireless communication networks which enables efficient provisioning resources for device interconnectivity and ensures Quality Service (QoS). emergence Large-Scale Internet Things (LS-IoT) is characterised by a multi-domain distributed network that provides end-to-end connectivity multitude active heterogeneous Machine-to-Machine (M2M) devices. nature LS-IoT requires robust scalable MAC protocols to manage concurrent, dynamic massive media access resource allocation. Several reviews have been conducted on with handful them focused or M2M networks. In this paper, the characterisation component are extensively discussed delineating impact MAC. Emerging research issues including high collision probability, control overheads, spectrum constraints, timing hardware energy consumption hidden terminals discussed. Some recently proposed solutions in literature enhancing under specific protocol enhancement classifications. contributions drawbacks recent summarised. Future direction oriented towards use virtualisation within framework Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) Software-Defined Networking (SDN) approaches proposed. This aimed at providing multidimensional scaling approach devices ensure effective