WideMac: A low power and routing friendly MAC protocol for ultra wideband sensor networks

Proceeedings of The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, ICUWB 2008

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 105-108

  Rousselot, Jérôme ^a   El Hoiydi, Amre ^a   Decotignie, Jean Dominique ^a  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; ARTS COMPUTING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BEACON TRANSMISSIONS; CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATIONS; DISTRIBUTED ROUTING PROTOCOLS; LOW POWERS; MAC PROTOCOLS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; NETWORK DENSITIES; NETWORK NODES; POWER CONSUMPTIONS; STATE OF THE ARTS; TRAFFIC RATES; ULTRA WIDE BAND IMPULSE RADIOS; WIDE BANDS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 56749143871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUWB.2008.4653427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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