A survey and projection on medium access control protocols for wireless sensor networks

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zhao, Yi Zhi ^a   Miao, Chunyan ^a   Ma, Maode ^b   Zhang, Jing Bing ^c   Leung, Cyril ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Kulicke and Soffa Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; SURVEYS;

CONTENTION-BASED; CONTENTION-FREE; HYBRID PROTOCOLS; LOW-COSTS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; PREAMBLE SAMPLING; UNIQUE FEATURES; WIRELESS BANDWIDTH; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS SENSOR TECHNOLOGY;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84871216581     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2379776.2379783     Document Type: Review

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