Table 2 Qualitative comparison
From: XL-WMSN: cross-layer quality of service protocol for wireless multimedia sensor networks
Protocol | Duty cycle | Service differentiation | Priority assignment | Traffic adaptive | Energy awareness | Delay awareness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SMAC | Static across all nodes | No | No | No | No | No |
TMAC | Dynamic | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Saxena et al. | Dynamic | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
PMAC | Static for each grade | No | No | No | No | Yes |
XL-WMSN | Dynamic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |