Z-MAC: A hybrid MAC for wireless sensor networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 511-524

  Rhee, Injong ^a   Warrier, Ajit ^a   Aia, Mahesh ^b,c   Min, Jeongki ^a   Sichitiu, Mihail L ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TapRoot Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

CSMA; MAC; TDMA; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DETECTORS; HYBRID SENSORS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MULTITASKING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

CHANNEL UTILIZATION; HYBRID MAC; LOW COSTS; LOW LATENCY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (PE); SLOT ASSIGNMENT; SYNCHRONIZATION ERRORS; TIME VARYING CHANNEL CONDITIONS; WIRELESS SENSORS; WORST CASE;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 45749132181     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2007.900704     Document Type: Article

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