One of the fundamental building blocks of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is the Medium
Access Control (MAC) protocol, that part of the system governing when and how two …

This paper analyzes the trade-off issue between energy efficiency and packet delivery
latency among existing duty-cycling MAC protocols in wireless sensor networks for low data …

Energy harvesting technology potentially solves the problem of energy efficiency, which is
the biggest challenge in wireless sensor networks. The sensor node, which has a capability …

This paper presents an asynchronous cascading wake-up MAC protocol for heterogeneous
traffic gathering in low-power wireless sensor networks. It jointly considers energy/delay …

One of the fast-growing, tremendous and highly demanding networks from various emerging
applications like military, healthcare industry, airport and forests is wireless sensor network …

A low duty-cycle operation medium access control (MAC) protocol is very important to
conserve energy for resource-constrained wireless sensor networks. Traditional sleep-wake …

This paper presents RIVER-MAC, a very efficient receiver-initiated asynchronously-duty-
cycled medium access control (MAC) protocol for IoT devices. The key innovations of RIVER …

We propose the low overhead media access control protocol (LO-MAC), a new low latency,
energy efficient MAC protocol for low data rate wireless sensor networks. LO-MAC uses both …

Optimizing energy consumption and end-to-end (e2e) packet delay in energy-constrained,
delay-sensitive wireless sensor networks is a conflicting multiobjective optimization problem …

In receiver-initiated MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), communication is
initiated by the receiver of the data through beacons containing the receiver's identity. In this …