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GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A New MAC Protocol for Wireless Packet Networks
— Medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless packet networks usually need to be distributed for flexibility and robustness. In a distributed way, however, collision dete...
Jun Peng, Liang Cheng, Biplab Sikdar
ISCC
2003
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
CSMA/IC: A New Class of Collision-free MAC Protocols for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
– In this paper, we present a new collision-free MAC protocol–Carrier Sense Media Access with ID Countdown (CSMA/IC) for ad hoc wireless networks that can achieve 100% collisio...
Tiantong You, Chi-Hsiang Yeh, Hossam S. Hassanein
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
RMAC: A Routing-Enhanced Duty-Cycle MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
—Duty-cycle MAC protocols have been proposed to meet the demanding energy requirements of wireless sensor networks. Although existing duty-cycle MAC protocols such as S-MAC are p...
Shu Du, Amit Kumar Saha, David B. Johnson
TMC
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Duty Cycle Control for Low-Power-Listening MAC Protocols
Energy efficiency is of the utmost importance in wireless sensor networks. The family of low-power-listening MAC protocols was proposed to reduce one form of energy dissipation...
Christophe J. Merlin, Wendi Beth Heinzelman
HPCC
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
The Energy Cost of Control Packets in Hybrid MAC Protocols
This paper investigates the energy cost of control packets in schedule-based medium access control protocols in wireless sensor networks. Control packets can be useful not only to ...
Qian Dong, Waltenegus Dargie, Alexander Schill