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AINA
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
A CDMA-Based MAC Protocol in Tree-Topology for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
In this paper, a CDMA-based medium access control (MAC) scheme in underwater acoustic sensor networks is proposed, in which a periodic sleeping mode is jointly employed for the pu...
Jong-Pil Kim, Jae-Won Lee, Youn-Seon Jang, Kweon S...
ICC
2007
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
AMAC: Traffic-Adaptive Sensor Network MAC Protocol through Variable Duty-Cycle Operations
—Sensor network MAC protocols usually employ periodic sleep and wakeup, achieving low duty-cycle to save energy and to increase the lifetime of battery-powered sensor devices. Ho...
Sang Hoon Lee, Joon Ho Park, Lynn Choi
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
T-Lohi: A New Class of MAC Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
This paper introduces T-Lohi, a new class of distributed and energy-efficient media-access protocols (MAC) for underwater acoustic sensor networks (UWSN). MAC design for UWSN fac...
Affan A. Syed, Wei Ye, John S. Heidemann
SENSYS
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Mitigating congestion in wireless sensor networks
Network congestion occurs when offered traffic load exceeds available capacity at any point in a network. In wireless sensor networks, congestion causes overall channel quality t...
Bret Hull, Kyle Jamieson, Hari Balakrishnan
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 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