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HPCC
2010
Springer
13 years 7 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
14 years 8 days 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 4 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
14 years 8 days 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 7 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...