• Archana Mishra
• Shahana Qureshi
• Devendra kumar

After many years of their appearance, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) remain a dynamic research point due to their wide extend applications in areas, for example, human services, military, observing and reconnaissance frameworks. In many applications, sensor networks are compelled in energy supply and correspondence data transfer capacity. Along these lines, novel strategies to decrease energy wasteful aspects and for effective utilization of the restricted transfer speed assets are fundamental. Such requirements joined with thick organize organization represent a few difficulties to the outline and administration of WSNs and require energy mindfulness at all layers of the systems administration protocol stack. For example, at the Data-Link layer, low obligation cycle Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols exchange off inactivity for energy productive activity. In this paper, we introduce an overview of cutting edge low duty cycle MAC protocols. We first blueprint the design challenges for MAC protocols in WSNs. At that point, we introduce an extensive overview of the most unmistakable and recent popular MAC protocols. These protocols are ordered into synchronous and asynchronous in light of their method of task. At last, the paper feature open research issues in MAC layer for WSNs is been discussed.

Wireless Sensor Networks; Linear Sensor Networks; Duty-cycle; MAC protocols

"The Performance of different MAC Layer Protocols in Wireless Networks: A Literature Survey ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 4, page no.44-48, April-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804230.pdf

"The Performance of different MAC Layer Protocols in Wireless Networks: A Literature Survey ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 4, page no. pp44-48, April-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804230.pdf