Time synchronization in ad hoc networks
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
ISPAN '00 Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Versatile low power media access for wireless sensor networks
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Z-MAC: a hybrid MAC for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
PEDAMACS: Power Efficient and Delay Aware Medium Access Protocol for Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Practical synchronization techniques for multi-channel MAC
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
CIT '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology
Funneling-MAC: a localized, sink-oriented MAC for boosting fidelity in sensor networks
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
X-MAC: a short preamble MAC protocol for duty-cycled wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Ultra-low duty cycle MAC with scheduled channel polling
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
RETOS: resilient, expandable, and threaded operating system for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
O-MAC: A Receiver Centric Power Management Protocol
ICNP '06 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
A multi-channel MAC implementation for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Multi-radio medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Crankshaft: an energy-efficient MAC-protocol for dense wireless sensor networks
EWSN'07 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Wireless sensor networks
Exploring diversity: evaluating the cost of frequency diversity in communication and routing
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems
Reliability through frequency diversity: why channel hopping makes sense
Proceedings of the 6th ACM symposium on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks
An empirical study of low-power wireless
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
SEUS '09 Proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 10.2 International Workshop on Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems
Feasibility analysis of controller design for adaptive channel hopping
Proceedings of the Fourth International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
Towards higher throughput and energy efficiency in dense wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Multichannel reliability assessment in real world WSNs
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
BurstMAC: an efficient MAC protocol for correlated traffic bursts
INSS'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Networked sensing systems
Multi-channel assignment in wireless sensor networks: a game theoretic approach
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Multiple receiver strategies for minimizing packet loss in dense sensor networks
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Channel selection in spectrum agile and cognitive MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international workshop on Mobility management and wireless access
RCO: a multi-channel MAC protocol with random cooperation for sensor networks
UIC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Ubiquitous intelligence and computing
MCRT: Multichannel Real-Time Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Survey Paper: A survey on multi-channel communication in wireless sensor networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
EM-MAC: a dynamic multichannel energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
MobiHoc '11 Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
Low-overhead dynamic multi-channel MAC for wireless sensor networks
EWSN'10 Proceedings of the 7th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
An asynchronous scheduled MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Joint Algorithm of Channel Allocation and Power Control in Multi-channel Wireless Sensor Network
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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As the use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) becomes widespread, node density tends to increase. This poses a new challenge for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol design. Although traditional MAC protocols achieve low-power operation, they use only a single channel which limits their performance. Several multi-channel MAC protocols for WSNs have been recently proposed. One of the key observations is that these protocols are less energy efficient than single-channel MAC protocols under light traffic conditions. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient multi-channel MAC protocol, Y-MAC, for WSNs. Our goal is to achieve both high performance and energy efficiency under diverse traffic conditions. In contrast to most of previous multi-channel MAC protocols for WSNs, we implemented Y-MAC on a real sensor node platform and conducted extensive experiments to evaluate its performance. Experimental results show that Y-MAC is energy efficient and maintains high performance under high-traffic conditions.