FlexiMAC: A flexible TDMA-based MAC protocol for fault-tolerant and energy-efficient wireless sensor networks

Proceedings - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networks, ICON 2006 - Networking-Challenges and Frontiers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 337-342

  Lee, Winnie Louis ^a   Datta, Amitava ^a   Cardell Oliver, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Fault tolerance; Medium access control; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DETECTORS; EFFICIENCY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEALTH; HYBRID SENSORS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BALANCE (WEIGHTING); DATA DELIVERY; DATA GATHERING; DEPTH-FIRST; END TO END (ETE); ENERGY EFFICIENT; FAULT-TOLERANT; INTERFERENCE RANGES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOCAL INFORMATION; MAC PROTOCOLS; MEMORY CONSTRAINTS; NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS; NETWORK DYNAMICS; NODE TRANSMISSION; NUMBER OF NODES; SELF HEALING (SH); WIRELESS SENSORS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 46449137388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICON.2006.302648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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