This paper proposes PriorityMAC, a priority-enhanced medium access control protocol,
designed for critical traffic in industrial wireless sensor and actuator networks (IWSAN). A …

Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) designed for mission-and time-critical
applications require timely and deterministic data delivery within stringent deadline bounds …

The problem of idle listening is one of the most significant sources of energy consumption in
wireless sensor nodes, and many techniques have been proposed based on duty cycling to …

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

In duty cycled MAC protocols, multi-packet, multi-flow and multi-hop traffic patterns
experience significant latencies, which are partially due to duty cycling. Several cross-layer …

Wireless sensor networks are typically designed for condition monitoring applications and to
conserve energy but not for time-critical applications with strict real-time constraints that can …

Existing low-power MAC protocols only provide low throughput because of the fixed low duty-
cycle. This often leads to poor performance when dealing with time-constrained burst traffic …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are generally designed to support applications in long-
term deployments, and thus WSN protocols are primarily designed to be energy efficient …

The fundamental WSN requirement to be energy-efficient has produced a whole range of
specialized Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols. They differ in how performance …

Energy efficiency is a major concern in the design of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and
their communication protocols. As the radio transceiver typically accounts for a major portion …