SF-MAC: A spatially fair MAC protocol for underwater acoustic sensor networks

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1686-1694

  Liao, Wen Hwa ^a   Huang, Chih Chien ^a  

^a TATUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fairness; multiple access control (MAC); underwater acoustic sensor networks (UWSN)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; CLEAR TO SENDS; COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE; CONTENTION PERIOD; EXACT ORDER; FAIRNESS; MAC PROTOCOL; MULTIPLE ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; PROBABILITY RULES; PROPAGATION DELAYS; REQUEST TO SENDS; SPATIAL FAIRNESS; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; TIME OF ARRIVAL; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; TRANSMITTERS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84860509864     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2177083     Document Type: Article

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