Time synchronization is a crucial component of a large class of sensor network applications, traditionally implemented as a standalone middleware service that provides a virtual gl...
Abstract— Sustainable operation of battery powered wireless embedded systems (such as sensor nodes) is a key challenge, and considerable research effort has been devoted to energ...
Vijay Raghunathan, Aman Kansal, Jason Hsu, Jonatha...
We present A-MAC, a receiver-initiated link layer for low-power wireless networks that supports several services under a unified architecture, and does so more efficiently and sca...
Prabal Dutta, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Yin Chen, C...
Sensor network nodes exhibit characteristics of both embedded systems and general-purpose systems. They must use little energy and be robust to environmental conditions, while als...
Chih-Chieh Han, Ram Kumar, Roy Shea, Eddie Kohler,...
In this paper we present a software tool for the simulation of distributed real-time embedded systems. Our tool is based on the popular NS-2 package for simulating the networking ...