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COMCOM
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Guaranteeing the network lifetime in wireless sensor networks: A MAC layer approach
Energy is the most crucial but scarce resource in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A wealth of MAC protocols are proposed only to prolong the network lifetime for energy-efficienc...
Yongsub Nam, Taekyoung Kwon, Hojin Lee, Hakyung Ju...
IJSNET
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
RL-MAC: a reinforcement learning based MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
:This paper introduces RL-MAC, a novel adaptive MediaAccess Control (MAC) protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) that employs a reinforcement learning framework. Existing sche...
Zhenzhen Liu, Itamar Elhanany
TMC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
OS-MAC: An Efficient MAC Protocol for Spectrum-Agile Wireless Networks
Wireless networks and devices have rapidly been gaining popularity over their wired counterparts. This popularity, in turn, has been generating an explosive and ever-increasing dem...
Bechir Hamdaoui, Kang G. Shin
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Performance evaluation of an enhanced distributed channel access protocol under heterogeneous traffic
Recently there have been considerable interests focusing on the performance evaluation of IEEE 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols, which were proposed for supporting Qu...
Mamun I. Abu-Tair, Geyong Min
WICON
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A study of MAC schemes for wireless sensor networks powered by ambient energy harvesting
Energy consumption is a perennial issue in the design of wireless sensor networks which typically rely on portable sources like batteries for power. Recent advances in ambient ene...
Zhi Ang Eu, Winston Khoon Guan Seah, Hwee Pink Tan