Preemptive emergency medium access for wireless sensor networks: Performance under realistic network conditions

International Journal of Sensor Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 90-99

  Balakrishnan, Manikanden ^a   Benhaddou, Driss ^b   Yuan, Xiaojing ^b  

^a Horeshoe Cir Jett Hall   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed medium access control; IEEE 802.11e standards; QoS; Quality of service; Wireless sensor networks; WSNs

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; EMERGENCY SERVICES; IEEE STANDARDS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CHANNEL ACCESS; DETERMINISTIC DELAY BOUNDS; DISTRIBUTED MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; IEEE 802.11E STANDARD; MEDIUM ACCESS; MULTI-HOPS; NETWORK CONDITION; QUALITY-OF-SERVICE; WSN;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84859030993     PISSN: 17481279     EISSN: 17481287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2012.045959     Document Type: Article

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