This paper presents the design, implementation and performance evaluation of a hybrid
MAC protocol, called Z-MAC, for wireless sensor networks that combines the strengths of …

The adoption of wireless sensor networks by applications that require complex operations,
ranging from health care to industrial monitoring, has brought forward a new challenge of …

H-MAC is a novel Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) based MAC protocol designed for
Body Sensor Networks (BSNs). It improves energy efficiency by exploiting human heartbeat …

Earlier sensor network MAC protocols focus on energy conservation in low-duty cycle
applications, while some recent applications involve real-time high-data-rate signals. This …

Power management is an important issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because
wireless sensor nodes are usually battery powered, and an efficient use of the available …

Energy efficiency is a major issue in any wireless networks. Medium access control (MAC)
protocols play an important role in providing a fair and efficient allocation of the available …

This article reviews the state-of-the-art energy-efficient contention-based and scheduled-
based medium access control (MAC) protocols for mobile sensor networks (MSNs) by first …

Efficient target localization in wireless sensor networks is a complex and challenging task.
Many past assumptions for target localization are not valid for wireless sensor networks …

ABSTRACT Z-MAC is a hybrid MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks. It combines the
strengths of TDMA and CSMA while offsetting their weaknesses. Nodes are assigned time …

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) have entered the class of Wireless Sensor
Networks (WSNs) to meet the multimedia requirements of new emerging applications, such …