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Sensors 2010, 10, 9771-9798; doi:10.3390/s101109771 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article MQ-MAC: A Multi-Constrained QoS-Aware Duty Cycle MAC for Heterogeneous Traffic in Wireless Sensor Networks Muhammad Mostafa Monowar, Md. Obaidur Rahman, Choong Seon Hong ⋆ and Sungwon Lee Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Seocheon, Giheung, Yongin, South Korea ⋆ Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: cshong@khu.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-31-201-2532; Fax: +82-31-204-9082. Received: 17 September 2010; in revised form: 8 October 2010 / Accepted: 15 October 2010 / Published: 1 November 2010 Abstract: Energy conservation is one of the striking research issues now-a-days for power constrained wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and hence, several duty-cycle based MAC protocols have been devised for WSNs in the last few years. However, assimilation of diverse applications with different QoS requirements (i.e., delay and reliability) within the same network also necessitates in devising a generic duty-cycle based MAC protocol that can achieve both the delay and reliability guarantee, termed as multi-constrained QoS, while preserving the energy efficiency. To address this, in this paper, we propose a Multi-constrained QoS-aware duty-cycle MAC for heterogeneous traffic in WSNs (MQ-MAC). MQ-MAC classifies the traffic based on their multi-constrained QoS demands. Through extensive simulation using ns-2 we evaluate the