Scheduling and adaptive listening approaches in MAC for WSN applications: A survey

False data detection, intrusion detection and coverage rate are major challenges in wireless sensor networks (WSN). Scheduling in media access control (MAC) using gateway and relay nodes solve some of the problems. In this paper, we carried out a brief survey on scheduling, delay aware MAC, cooperative communications in MAC, and adaptive listening to keep controlling the energy in sensors. In addition, multichannel MAC and various routing strategy techniques for WSN are discussed. Firefly algorithm for dynamic scheduling pipelined scheduling for linear sensor networks gives better throughput and latency. Heuristic configuration solves the overhearing problem, as node power-based MAC controls power of each node. Based on WSN applications and the performance metrics concentrated, various techniques for MAC are discussed throughout in this paper.