—This paper investigates fundamental performance limits of medium access control (MAC) protocols for particular underwater multi-hop sensor networks under a fair-access criterion...
Yang Xiao, Miao Peng, John H. Gibson, Geoffrey G. ...
Abstract—A cross-layer communication protocol called VSNModule is introduced for Wireless Video Sensor Networks based on UltraWideBand (UWB) radio technology at the physical laye...
Luca Campelli, Ian F. Akyildiz, Luigi Fratta, Matt...
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...
—The use of wireless sensor networks is rapidly growing in various types of applications that benefit from spatially distributed data collection. Some of these applications, suc...
In contention-based sensor networks, nodes compete to access a shared channel for data transmission and collision is a common challenge. For power conservation, periodical active/s...