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DC
2008
13 years 3 months ago
Contention-free MAC protocols for asynchronous wireless sensor networks
A MAC protocol specifies how nodes in a sensor network access a shared communication channel. Desired properties of a MAC protocol are: it should be contention-free (avoid collisio...
Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Fikret Sivrikay...
HPCC
2010
Springer
13 years 5 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
IPCCC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
MMAC: a mobility-adaptive, collision-free MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Mobility in wireless sensor networks poses unique challenges to the medium access control (MAC) protocol design. Previous MAC protocols for sensor networks assume static sensor no...
Muneeb Ali, T. Suleman, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
WCNC
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Experiences and Lessons from Implementing a Wireless Sensor Network MAC Protocol in the Castalia Simulator
—We describe our experience from the implementation of the T-MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks in the open-source Castalia simulator. Notwithstanding the popularity of th...
Yuri Tselishchev, Athanassios Boulis, Lavy Libman
ICWN
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Distributed Energy Aware MAC Layer Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Due to the fact that sensor nodes are untethered and unattended, energy management is a critical issue in communication mechanism of a wireless sensor network. In this paper, we a...
Ramaraju Kalidindi, Rajgopal Kannan, S. Sitharama ...