Packet loss analysis of the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC without acknowledgements

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-81

  Shu, Feng ^a   Sakurai, Taka ^b   Zukerman, Moshe ^b   Vu, Hai L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.15.4; Markov chain; Medium access control (MAC); Performance analysis; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET LOSS; SENSOR NETWORKS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS;

MARKOV CHAIN MODEL; PACKET LOSS ANALYSIS; SENSOR NODES;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 33947678254     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2007.061295     Document Type: Article

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