—Autonomous wireless agents such as unmanned aerial vehicles, mobile base stations, or self-operating wireless nodes present a great potential for deployment in next-generation w...
—Energy-efficiency is a central challenge in sensor networks, and the radio is a major contributor to overall energy node consumption. Current energy-efficient MAC protocols fo...
Raja Jurdak, Antonio G. Ruzzelli, Gregory M. P. O'...
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...
The automatic analysis of social interactions is attracting significant interest in the multimedia community. This work addresses one of the most important aspects of the problem...
Sarah Favre, Alfred Dielmann, Alessandro Vinciarel...
Packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) protocol is an implicit reservation MAC protocol. It is initially designed for voice packets in the cellular networks [2], [3] but it is...