In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), energy efficiency is a fundamental issue that requires
attention in the design of communication protocols. Energy waste occurs as a result of …

Abstract Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have come to require an energy
efficiency and a guaranteed delivery delay time, on the contrary to traditional Medium …

Energy efficiency plays a significant role for the network lifetime extension in wireless sensor
networks (WSNs). On the other hand, higher priority information requires Quality of Service …

Duty-cycling technique has been widely adopted in MAC protocols for wireless sensor
networks to conserve energy. However, low duty-cycle also leads to limited throughput in …

Medium access control (MAC) protocols play a crucial role in energy efficiency, latency
reduction for sensor networks. Although some existing MAC protocols have achieved certain …

Duty-cycling is a primary technique significantly improving the energy efficiency of Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSNs). Thus, a large number of MAC protocols have been developed for …

In recent years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained significant attention in both
industry and academia. In WSNs, each sensor node is normally equipped with a small‐size …

It is well known that periodically putting nodes into sleep can effectively save energy in
wireless sensor networks, at the cost of increased communication delays. However, most …

A low duty-cycle operation medium access control (MAC) protocol is very important to
conserve energy for resource-constrained wireless sensor networks. Traditional sleep-wake …

This paper presents an asynchronous cascading wake-up MAC protocol for heterogeneous
traffic gathering in low-power wireless sensor networks. It jointly considers energy/delay …