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WOWMOM
2009
ACM
191views Multimedia» more  WOWMOM 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Multi-channel spectrum-agile MAC protocol with adaptive load control
Abstract— Spectrum-agile radios, also known as cognitive radios, have a great potential to improve spectrum utilization by enabling dynamic access to the spectrum. A key challeng...
Fan Wang, Marwan Krunz
WDAG
2004
Springer
144views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2004»
14 years 3 months 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...
SIES
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
An Energy-Aware Algorithm for TDMA MAC Protocols in Real-Time Wireless Networks
Abstract--In distributed embedded systems operated by battery, energy management is a critical issue that has to be addressed at different architecture levels. For systems that tig...
Gianluca Franchino, Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Mauro Mar...
VTC
2008
IEEE
135views Communications» more  VTC 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
MACA-MN: A MACA-Based MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks with Packet Train for Multiple Neighbors
Abstract— Unlike the terrestrial wireless networks that utilize the radio channel, underwater networks use the acoustic channel, which poses research challenges in the medium acc...
Nitthita Chirdchoo, Wee-Seng Soh, Kee Chaing Chua
VTC
2006
IEEE
166views Communications» more  VTC 2006»
14 years 4 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...