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COMCOM
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Guaranteeing the network lifetime in wireless sensor networks: A MAC layer approach
Energy is the most crucial but scarce resource in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A wealth of MAC protocols are proposed only to prolong the network lifetime for energy-efficienc...
Yongsub Nam, Taekyoung Kwon, Hojin Lee, Hakyung Ju...
MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A MAC protocol for full exploitation of directional antennas in ad-hoc wireless networks
Directional antennas in ad hoc networks offer many benefits compared with classical omnidirectional antennas. The most important include significant increase of spatial reuse, cov...
Thanasis Korakis, Gentian Jakllari, Leandros Tassi...
APWEB
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Energy Efficient Cross-Layer MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
In the area of wireless sensor networks, achieving minimum energy consumption is a very important research issue. A number of energy efficient protocols have been proposed, mostly ...
Changsu Suh, Young-Bae Ko, Dong-Min Son
WWIC
2009
Springer
191views Communications» more  WWIC 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
Hop-to-Hop Reliability in IP-Based Wireless Sensor Networks - A Cross-Layer Approach
Abstract. To interconnect a wireless sensor network (WSN) to the Internet, we propose to use TCP/IP as the standard protocol for all network entities. We present a cross layer desi...
Gerald Wagenknecht, Markus Anwander, Torsten Braun
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
179views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
14 years 5 months ago
Energy and rate based MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Abstract-- Sensor networks are typically unattended because of their deployment in hazardous, hostile or remote environments. This makes the problem of conserving energy at individ...
Rajgopal Kannan, Ramaraju Kalidindi, S. Sitharama ...