A robust and resilient medium access control (MAC) protocol is crucial for numerous
machine-type devices to concurrently access the channel in a machine-to-machine (M2M) …

In Machine to Machine (M2M) networks, a robust Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is
crucial to enable numerous machine-type devices to concurrently access the channel. Most …

With the growing interest in the use of autonomous computing, sensing and actuating
devices for various applications such as smart grids, home networking, smart environments …

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networks enabling networked nodes (sensors or actuators) to
exchange information have been intensively studied lately. Key components of M2M …

Abstract Machine‐to‐machine (M2M) communication has received increasing attention in
recent year. An M2M network exhibits some salient features such as large number of …

Most existing multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocols have at least one of the
following four performance bottlenecks: 1) global synchronization among users; 2) …

IEEE 802.15. 4-2003 (2003) was introduced to address the market need for connecting low-
rate devices in a wireless personal area network (WPAN). A slotted CSMA/CA medium …

This paper discusses the realization of Adaptive Traffic Load slotted MACA in cellular based
M2M communication. Based on the statistic information of the channel's occupancy rate, the …

Wireless networks play an increasingly important role in application areas such as factory-
floor automation, process control, and automotive electronics. In this paper, we address the …

This paper proposes a novel distributed multi-channel medium access control (MAC)
protocol using fast and slow hopping sequences with dual radio interfaces. Specifically, one …