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EWSN
2007
Springer
16 years 5 months ago
Crankshaft: An Energy-Efficient MAC-Protocol for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract. This paper introduces Crankshaft, a MAC protocol specifically targeted at dense wireless sensor networks. Crankshaft employs node synchronisation and offset wake-up sched...
Gertjan P. Halkes, Koen Langendoen
TWC
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Lifetime-resource tradeoff for multicast traffic in wireless sensor networks
In this paper, we study the problem of supporting multicast traffic in wireless sensor networks with network coding. On one hand, coding operations can reduce power consumption and...
Vahid Shah-Mansouri, Vincent W. S. Wong
IJSNET
2010
317views more  IJSNET 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
MRL-CC: a novel cooperative communication protocol for QoS provisioning in wireless sensor networks
: Cooperative communications have been demonstrated to be effective in combating the multiple fading effects in wireless networks, and improving the network performance in terms of...
Xuedong Liang, Min Chen, Yang Xiao, Ilangko Balasi...
SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
The firecracker protocol
We propose the Firecracker protocol for data dissemination in wireless sensor networks. Firecracker uses a combination of routing and broadcasts to rapidly deliver a piece of data...
Philip Levis, David E. Culler
APNOMS
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Performance Analysis of Service Differentiation for IEEE 802.15.4 Slotted CSMA/CA
In this paper, we propose two mechanisms, differentiation by backoff exponent and differentiation by the size of contention window, for IEEE 802.15.4 sensor networks to provide mul...
Meejoung Kim