Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) offer the potential to significantly improve the efficiency of
existing transportation systems. Currently, collecting traffic data for traffic planning and …

Active safety systems are based upon the accurate and fast estimation of the value of
important dynamical variables such as forces, load transfer, actual tire-road friction (kinetic …

Future application areas of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) may include industrial process
automation, aircraft control systems or patient monitoring in hospitals. Such applications …

School zones are areas near schools that have lower speed limits and where illegally
parked vehicles pose a threat to school children by obstructing them from the view of drivers …

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 …

MAC protocol is the major consumer of sensor energy because it controls the activity of
wireless radio of sensor nodes directly. The energy efficiency of MAC protocol makes a …

Accurate analytical expressions of delay and packet reception probabilities, and energy
consumption of duty-cycled wireless sensor networks with random medium access control …

It is quite common to see that classical periodic or Poisson packet traffic models are used for
evaluating the performance of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, these models …

The wide range of wireless sensor network (WSN) applications makes it necessary to design
MAC protocols that not only save energy and extend network life, but also improve network …

We present a novel approach for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol design based on
protocol engine. Current way of designing MAC protocols for a specific application is based …