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WDAG
2004
Springer
144views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
Contention-Free MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract. A MAC protocol specifies how nodes in a sensor network access a shared communication channel. Desired properties of such MAC protocol are: it should be distributed and c...
Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Fikret Sivrikay...
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
179views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
14 years 10 months ago
Energy and rate based MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Abstract-- Sensor networks are typically unattended because of their deployment in hazardous, hostile or remote environments. This makes the problem of conserving energy at individ...
Rajgopal Kannan, Ramaraju Kalidindi, S. Sitharama ...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Analysis of the Contention Access Phase of a Reservation MAC Protocol for Wide-Area Data Intensive Sensor Networks
— We propose a contention based reservation MAC protocol for a collaborative sensing scenario involving a set of surveillance UAVs communicating with a hub. Data transmission rig...
Arindam Kumar Das, Sumit Roy, Abhijit Mahalanobis
EWSN
2006
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Sift: A MAC Protocol for Event-Driven Wireless Sensor Networks
Nodes in sensor networks often encounter spatially-correlated contention, where multiple nodes in the same neighborhood all sense an event they need to transmit information about....
Kyle Jamieson, Hari Balakrishnan, Y. C. Tay
ISCAPDCS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
EasyMAC: A New and Simple Protocol for Slot Assignment
We give a new distributed algorithm EasyMAC for the slot assignment for media access control (MAC) of nodes in a sensor network. Our algorithm reduces both the number of messages ...
Jerrolyn Brees, Sukhamay Kundu