Physical layer and medium access control design in energy efficient sensor networks: An overview

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 2-15

  Kim, Taejoon ^a   Kim, Il Han ^b   Sun, Yanjun ^c   Jin, ZhongYi ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross Layer; energy efficient sensor network; medium access control (MAC) layer; physical (PHY) layer; sensor network standards

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA FUSION; DESIGN; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK LAYERS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CROSS LAYER; ENERGY-EFFICIENT SENSOR NETWORKS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER; NETWORK STANDARDS; PHYSICAL LAYERS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84923014521     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2014.2379511     Document Type: Article

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