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GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 17 days ago
A MAC Protocol with Directional Antennas for Deafness Avoidance in Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract—Directional antennas are expected to provide significant improvements over omni-directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks. Directional MAC protocols, however, int...
Masanori Takata, Masaki Bandai, Takashi Watanabe
JNW
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
MAC Protocols for GSP in Wireless Sensor Networks
The Gossip-based Sleep Protocol (GSP) is a routing protocol designed to save energy in Wireless Sensor Networks. This work presents two MAC protocols designed to complement the cha...
Maria Calle, Joseph Kabara
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
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14 years 6 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 ...
APWEB
2006
Springer
13 years 10 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
ICWN
2003
13 years 7 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 ...