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DC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Contention-free MAC protocols for asynchronous wireless sensor networks
A MAC protocol specifies how nodes in a sensor network access a shared communication channel. Desired properties of a MAC protocol are: it should be contention-free (avoid collisio...
Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Fikret Sivrikay...
LCN
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed CDMA-based MAC Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks
—Underwater Sensor Networks are typically distributed in nature and the nodes communicate using acoustic waves over a wireless medium. Such networks are characterized by long and...
Hwee Xian Tan, Winston Khoon Guan Seah
VTC
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
TA-MAC: Task Aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), reducing energy consumption of resource constrained sensor nodes is one of the most important issues. In this paper, we propose a ta...
Sangheon Pack, Jaeyoung Choi, Taekyoung Kwon, Yang...
IJSNET
2007
115views more  IJSNET 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Implementation and performance evaluation of nanoMAC: a low-power MAC solution for high density wireless sensor networks
: This paper describes the implementation architecture and performance analysis of nanoMAC, a CSMA/CA based medium access control protocol, which is specifically designed for high...
Junaid Ansari, Janne Riihijärvi, Petri Mä...
PUC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A wireless sensor networks MAC protocol for real-time applications
Abstract Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are designed for data gathering and processing, with particular requirements: low hardware complexity, low energy consumption, special traff...
Esteban Egea-López, Javier Vales-Alonso, Al...