This paper presents a novel approach to medium access control for single-hop wireless
sensor networks. The ALOHA-Q protocol applies Q-Learning to frame based ALOHA as an …

One of the most challenging jobs in designing a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for
Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) is to achieve QoS requirements for heterogeneous traffics …

Background Human body communication (HBC) using the human body as the transmission
medium, which has been regarded as one of the most promising short-range …

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is a new technology for remote monitoring of
patients. Sensor nodes are placed on different parts of the body such as implants and on …

Although the roles of body sensor networks (BSNs) are similar to those carried out by the
generic wireless sensor networks (WSNs), new solutions must be established to optimize …

Collision detection mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have largely been
revolving around direct demodulation and decoding of received packets and deciding on a …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been considered one of the very promising
technologies for the implementation of smart grid. WSN-based smart grid communication …

With recent advances in wireless networking, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)
became practically feasible. This paper presents a survey about energy-efficient MAC …

Although the roles of body sensor networks (BSNs) are similar to those carried out by the
generic wireless sensor networks (WSNs), new solutions must be established to optimize …