Wireless sensor networks are appealing to researchers due to their wide range of
application potential in areas such as target detection and tracking, environmental …

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 …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become an active research area for the researchers.
The sensor nodes are generally unattended after their deployment in hazardous, hostile or …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become a leading solution in many important
applications such as intrusion detection, target tracking, industrial automation, smart building …

Medium access control for wireless sensor networks has been a very active research area
for the past couple of years. The sensor networks literature presents an alphabet soup of …

The wireless medium being inherently broadcast in nature and hence prone to interferences
requires highly optimized medium access control (MAC) protocols. This holds particularly …

Wireless sensor networks are a fascinating and challenging area of research and a key
enabler for new applications involving smart objects interacting with the physical …

Nodes in sensor networks often encounter spatially-correlated contention, where multiple
nodes in the same neighborhood all sense an event they need to transmit information about …

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 chapter provides a broad overview of the MAC protocols especially developed for
sensor networks. These MAC protocols differ from typical WLAN access protocols in that …