Targeted at multi-hop wireless sensor networks, a set of low power MAC design principles
have been proposed, and a novel ultra-low power MAC is designed to be distributed in …

WiseMAC is a medium access control protocol designed for wireless sensor networks. This
protocol is based on non-persistent CSMA and uses the preamble sampling technique to …

WiseMAC is a medium access control protocol designed for the WiseNET™ wireless sensor
network. It is based on CSMA and uses the preamble sampling technique to minimize the …

As the use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) becomes widespread, node density tends to
increase. This poses a new challenge for medium access control (MAC) protocol design …

This paper proposes S-MAC, a medium-access control (MAC) protocol designed for wireless
sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing …

This chapter reviews medium access control (MAC), an enabling technology in wireless
sensor networks. MAC protocols control how sensors access a shared radio channel to …

In this paper, we propose U-MAC, a medium access control protocol designed for wireless
sensor networks. Nowadays, wireless sensor network are formed by a great quantity of …

Medium access protocols for wireless sensor networks are especially challenging because
the receiver of a sensor node in a distributed multi-hop network must be turned off most of …

Due to the fact that sensor nodes are untethered and unattended, energy management is a
critical issue in communication mechanism of a wireless sensor network. In this paper, we …

This paper proposes novel energy efficient self-organization and medium access control
(MAC) protocols for wireless sensor networks. The proposed protocol is based on time …