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SIGMOD
2003
ACM
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14 years 7 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 ...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Delay-bounded MAC with minimal idle listening for sensor networks
—This paper presents a new receiver-initiated sensor network MAC protocol, called CyMAC, which has the following unique features. It reduces the idle listening time of sensor nod...
Yang Peng, Zi Li, Daji Qiao, Wensheng Zhang
EWSN
2006
Springer
14 years 7 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
WDAG
2004
Springer
144views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2004»
14 years 25 days 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...
ENTCS
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Evaluating Complex MAC Protocols for Sensor Networks with APMC
In this paper we present an analysis of a MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol for wireless sensor networks. The purpose of this protocol is to manage wireless media access by con...
Michaël Cadilhac, Thomas Hérault, Rich...