… Although existing duty-cycle MAC protocols such as S-MAC are power efficient, they …
present a new duty-cycle MAC protocol, called RMAC (the Routing enhanced MAC protocol), that …

… , the sleep/wakeup cycle still incurs additional delay compared to an always-on MAC protocol.
This … The contribution of this paper is to explore the limits of scheduled MAC protocols. We …

… duty cycle MAC protocols for sensor networks. Section 3 presents the detailed design of
RI-MAC… , and Section 4, presents an evaluation of RI-MAC using both ns-2 simulation and our im…

… This section compares the proposed protocol with two other 555 low duty cycle and low-power
protocols, described in [10] and 556 [5]. Comparison was done for the same sampling …

… designers could easily find inspiration in the adaptive back-off scheme of the 802.11
MAC protocol. We chose to design our adaptive duty cycle control based on the number of …

… duty cycle, but the intermediate node 2 with 35% duty cycle. The observation reflects the
problematic uniform duty cycle in S-MAC… -MAC, we propose our MAC protocol based on S-MAC, …

… various important low duty cycle MAC protocols and the two most important MAC protocols
designed … In most cases, the low duty cycle MAC protocols trade off latency for energy efficient …

… [8], the existing duty-cycle MAC occurs … a new duty-cycle based MAC protocol suitable
for congested WSNs and IoT. According to the degree of network traffic congestion, the duty-cycle …

… , the duty cycle of proposed DCD-MAC protocol linearly increases with the growing number
of sensor nodes. All over again, the duty cycle of DCD-MAC … , the duty cycle of DCD-MAC is …

… [10] respectively operate on a static and threshold-based duty cycle, our proposed MAC
protocol adjusts it depending on the dominating traffic received. The active period is highest for …