W-MAC: A workload-aware MAC protocol for heterogeneous convergecast in wireless sensor networks

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2505-2524

  Xia, Ming ^a   Dong, Yabo ^a   Lu, Dongming ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous convergecast; MAC protocol; TDMA; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; TIME; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; WORKLOAD;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRICITY; TIME FACTORS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 79953302232     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110302505     Document Type: Article

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