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HPCC
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
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 ...
SENSYS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Sensor networks exhibit a unique funneling effect which is a product of the distinctive many-to-one, hop-by-hop traffic pattern found in sensor networks, and results in a signific...
TMC
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
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...
WOWMOM
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
— In multihop wireless networks where a random access MAC scheme such as CSMA/CA is used, nodes greedily compete in a distributed manner and are unaware of the interference they ...
ICWN
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
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...