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TMC
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
SAMAC: A Cross-Layer Communication Protocol for Sensor Networks with Sectored Antennas
—Wireless sensor networks have been used to gather data and information in many diverse application settings. The capacity of such networks remains a fundamental obstacle toward ...
Emad Felemban, Serdar Vural, Robert Murawski, Eyle...
ECRTS
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
On Scheduling and Real-Time Capacity of Hexagonal Wireless Sensor Networks
Since wireless ad-hoc networks use shared communication medium, accesses to the medium must be coordinated to avoid packet collisions. Transmission scheduling algorithms allocate ...
Shashi Prabh, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
COMCOM
2007
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14 years 9 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...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Controlled random access MAC for network utility maximization in wireless networks
— There has been much recent interest in protocol design for wireless networks based on maximizing a network utility function. A significant advance in recent years is the obser...
Robert J. McCabe, Nikolaos M. Freris, P. R. Kumar
PERCOM
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Implementation of a MAC Protocol for QoS Support in Wireless Sensor Networks
— Future application areas of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) may include industrial process automation, aircraft control systems or patient monitoring in hospitals. Such applica...
Petcharat Suriyachai, Utz Roedig, Andrew Scott