Multimedia applications require significantly higher bandwidth than conventional textual
applications. Furthermore, multimedia stream requires time sensitive and involves high …

PMAC is a medium access protocol designed for wireless sensor networks. The protocol is
based on exploiting the periodicity inherent in carrier sensing schemes like CSMA/CA …

The scheduling algorithm is a fundamental design problem to allocate resources amongst
different entities in distributive wireless sensor networks (WSNs). These sensor nodes have …

Improving tracking quality and extending network lifespan are two main objects for target
tracking, which are usually contradictory due to limited energy of sensor nodes in wireless …

Wireless sensor networks rely on the cooperative effort of the densely deployed sensor
nodes to report the detected events. As a result, sensor observations are highly correlated in …

In target tracking WSNs, the tree-based and cluster-based network should be rebuilt when
the location of target changes, which involves energy and time overheads. Although the …

This paper presents Latency-Energy Minimization Medium Access (LEMMA), a new TDMA-
based MAC protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), specially suited to extend the …

Energy efficiency is one of the most important design criteria for long lasting WSN
applications. There are many interesting works related to Medium Access Control (MAC) …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are mainly characterized by dense deployment of sensor
nodes which collectively transmit information about sensed events to the sink. Due to the …

Abstract Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) communication protocols in wireless sensor
networks provide collision-free communication that increases energy-efficiency while …