Analyzing MAC Protocols for Low Data-Rate Applications

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-40

  Langendoen, Koen ^a   Meier, Andreas ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Performance; performance modeling; sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; CHANNEL BANDWIDTH; DATA RATES; DATA-RATE; DUTY CYCLES; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY-CONSUMPTION; EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH; HARDWARE CHARACTERISTICS; HARDWARE PLATFORM; MAC PROTOCOL; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; PARETO-OPTIMAL; PERFORMANCE MODELING; PROTOCOL OVERHEAD; PROTOCOL PARAMETERS; RANDOM ACCESS SCHEMES; REDUCTION IN ENERGY CONSUMPTION; S-MAC PROTOCOLS; SLOT LENGTH; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DESCRIPTORS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; REAL-TIME AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; SPECIAL-PURPOSE AND APPLICATION-BASED SYSTEMS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSORS NETWORKS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 77955382968     PISSN: 15504859     EISSN: 15504867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1824766.1824775     Document Type: Article

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