TOSSIM: accurate and scalable simulation of entire TinyOS applications
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The dynamic behavior of a data dissemination protocol for network programming at scale
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
A Multi-Radio Unification Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
BROADNETS '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Broadband Networks
A Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
CIT '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology
A control theory approach to throughput optimization in multi-channel collection sensor networks
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Polynomial algorithm for the k-cut problem
SFCS '88 Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Gappa: gossip based multi-channel reprogramming for sensor networks
DCOSS'06 Proceedings of the Second IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Dustminer: troubleshooting interactive complexity bugs in sensor networks
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems
Exploring diversity: evaluating the cost of frequency diversity in communication and routing
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems
Traffic-Aware Channel Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks
WASA '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications
RACNet: a high-fidelity data center sensing network
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
SEUS '09 Proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 10.2 International Workshop on Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems
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
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
Rethinking multi-channel protocols in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Embedded Networked Sensors
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
Data mining for diagnostic debugging in sensor networks: preliminary evidence and lessons learned
Sensor-KDD'08 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A multichannel design for QoS aware energy efficient clustering and routing in WMSN
International Journal of Sensor Networks
Troubleshooting interactive complexity bugs in wireless sensor networks using data mining techniques
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
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Despite availability of multiple orthogonal communication channels on common sensor network platforms, such as MicaZ motes, and despite multiple simulation-supported designs of multi-channel MAC protocols, most existing sensor networks use only one channel for communication, which is a source of bandwidth inefficiency. In this work, we design, implement, and experimentally evaluate a practical MAC protocol which utilizes multiple channels efficiently for WSNs. A control theory approach is used to dynamically allocate channels for each mote in a distributed manner transparently to the application and routing layers. The protocol assumes that sensor nodes are equipped with one half-duplex radio interface which is most common in current hardware platforms. The protocol does not require time synchronization among nodes and takes the channel switching cost of current hardware into account. Evaluation results on a real testbed show that it achieves a non-trivial bandwidth improvement using 802.15.4 radios in topologies which are typical in WSNs. The MAC protocol was implemented in TinyOS-2.x and packaged as a software component to enable seamless use with existing applications.