Cross layer adaptation of check intervals in low power listening MAC protocols for lifetime improvement in Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 10511-10535

  Escolar, Soledad ^a   Chessa, Stefano ^b,c   Carretero, Jesús ^a   Marinescu, Maria Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive scheduling; Communication latency; Preamble sampling protocols; Synchronization; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865386898     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120810511     Document Type: Article

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