Energy-efficient wireless mac protocols for railway monitoring applications

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 649-659

  Shafiullah, G M ^a   Azad, Salahuddin A ^a   Ali, A B M Shawkat ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; medium access control (MAC) protocol; railway wagon; vehicle health monitoring (VHM); wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; RAILWAY SIGNALING SYSTEMS; RAILWAY WAGON; VEHICLE HEALTH MONITORING; WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS MAC PROTOCOLS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKINGS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; OPEN SYSTEMS; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD SIGNAL SYSTEMS; RAILROADS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84878739424     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2012.2227315     Document Type: Article

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