A-MAC: A versatile and efficient receiver-initiated link layer for low-power wireless

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Dutta, Prabal ^a   Dawson Haggerty, Stephen ^b   Chen, Yin ^c   Liang, Chieh Jan Mike ^d   Terzis, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Link protocols; MAC protocols; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DELIVERY RATIO; FALSE POSITIVE; IDLE LISTENING; LINK LAYERS; LOW POWER; LOW-POWER LINKS; MAC PROTOCOL; PACKET DELIVERY RATIO; POWER INCREASE; RECEIVER-INITIATED; ROUTING PERFORMANCE; SINGLE-HOP; SYNCHRONIZATION PRIMITIVE; UNICAST; UNIFIED ARCHITECTURE;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

DATA TRANSFER;

EID: 84867504160     PISSN: 15504859     EISSN: 15504867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2240116.2240119     Document Type: Article

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