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HPCC
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Energy Cost of Control Packets in Hybrid MAC Protocols
This paper investigates the energy cost of control packets in schedule-based medium access control protocols in wireless sensor networks. Control packets can be useful not only to ...
Qian Dong, Waltenegus Dargie, Alexander Schill
IPCCC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
MMAC: a mobility-adaptive, collision-free MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Mobility in wireless sensor networks poses unique challenges to the medium access control (MAC) protocol design. Previous MAC protocols for sensor networks assume static sensor no...
Muneeb Ali, T. Suleman, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
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
ICN
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Simulation Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Impulse Radio Ultra Wide Band
Impulse Radio Ultra Wide Band (IR-UWB) is a promising technology to address Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) constraints. However, existing network simulation tools do not provide a ...
Abdoulaye Berthe, Aubin Lecointre, Daniela Dragomi...
TMC
2008
107views more  TMC 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A Mutual Network Synchronization Method for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Mutual network synchronization is a distributed method in which geographically separated clocks align their times to one another without the need of reference or master clocks. Mut...
Carlos H. Rentel, Thomas Kunz