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ICC
2007
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Performance Analysis of Polling based TDMA MAC Protocols with Sleep and Wakeup Cycles
— In sensor networks, MAC protocols based on Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) with wakeup and sleep periods have attracted considerable interest because of their low power co...
Haiming Yang, Biplab Sikdar
ICUMT
2009
13 years 5 months ago
On the adaptivity of today's Energy-Efficient MAC protocols under varying traffic conditions
Energy efficiency is a major concern in the design of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and their communication protocols. As the radio transceiver typically accounts for a major por...
Philipp Hurni, Torsten Braun
CN
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Performance evaluation of MAC transmission power control in wireless sensor networks
In this paper we provide a method to analytically compute the energy saving provided by the use of transmission power control (TPC) at the MAC layer in wireless sensor networks (W...
Javier Vales-Alonso, Esteban Egea-López, Al...
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
JNW
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
MAC Protocols for GSP in Wireless Sensor Networks
The Gossip-based Sleep Protocol (GSP) is a routing protocol designed to save energy in Wireless Sensor Networks. This work presents two MAC protocols designed to complement the cha...
Maria Calle, Joseph Kabara