Reinforcement learning based ALOHA for multi-hop wireless sensor networks with informed receiving

IET Conference Publications

Volumn 2012, Issue 601 CP, 2012, Pages

  Chu, Y ^a   Mitchell, P D ^a   Grace, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ALOHA; Medium Access Control; Reinforcement Learning; Wireless Sensor Networks

Indexed keywords

ALOHA; END TO END DELAY; IDLE LISTENING; LOW COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; MULTIHOP; SLOT ASSIGNMENT; SLOTTED ALOHA; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SENSORS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84865734673     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2012.0582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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