Medium Access Control facing the reality of WSN deployments

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 22-27

  Kuntz, Romain ^a   Gallais, Antoine ^a   Noel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Deployments; MAC; Survey; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROTOCOL; CODE REUSE; DEPLOYMENTS; MAC; MAC LAYER;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; SURVEYS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79955770545     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 19435819     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1568613.1568619     Document Type: Article

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