MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's
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PAMAS—power aware multi-access protocol with signalling for ad hoc networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
An adaptive energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
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Energy-efficient collision-free medium access control for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach
Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach
"GANGS": an energy efficient MAC protocol for sensor networks
ACM-SE 42 Proceedings of the 42nd annual Southeast regional conference
Medium access control with coordinated adaptive sleeping for wireless sensor networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A TDMA-based MAC protocol for WSNs
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Cluster-Head Election Using Fuzzy Logic for Wireless Sensor Networks
CNSR '05 Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference
Z-MAC: a hybrid MAC for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
An adaptive coordinated medium access control for wireless sensor networks
ISCC '04 Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 2 (ISCC"04) - Volume 02
WiseMAC: an ultra low power MAC protocol for the downlink of infrastructure wireless sensor networks
ISCC '04 Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 2 (ISCC"04) - Volume 02
Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithms
Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithms
Medium access control in wireless sensor networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A probabilistic zonal approach for swarm-inspired wildfire detection using sensor networks
International Journal of Communication Systems
EEAODR: An energy-efficient ad hoc on-demand routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks
International Journal of Communication Systems
LACAS: learning automata-based congestion avoidance scheme for healthcare wireless sensor networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on wireless and pervasive communications for healthcare
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Efficient data acquisition in underwater wireless sensor Ad Hoc networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
A topology control algorithm for interference and energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks
ADHOC-NOW'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ad-hoc, mobile, and wireless networks
Minimum overhearing and transmission multicast routing protocol for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM symposium on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks
An algorithm on fairness verification of mobile sink routing in wireless sensor network
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have nodes that are small in size and are powered by small batteries having very limited amount of energy. In most applications of WSN, the nodes in the network remain inactive for long periods of time, and intermittently they become active on sensing any change in the environment. The data sensed by the different nodes are sent to the sink node. In contrast to other infrastructure-based wireless networks, higher throughput, lower latency and per-node fairness in WSN are imperative, but their importance is subdued when compared to energy consumption. In this work, we have regarded the amount of energy consumption in the nodes to be of primary concern, while throughput and latency in the network to be secondary. We have proposed a protocol for energy-efficient adaptive listen for medium access control in WSN. Our protocol adaptively changes the slot-time, which is the time of each slot in the contention window. This correspondingly changes the cycle-time, which is the sum of the listen-time and the sleep-time of the sensors, while keeping the duty-cycle, which is the ratio between the listen-time and the cycle-time, constant. Using simulation experiments, we evaluated the performance of the proposed protocol, compared with the popular Sensor Medium Access Control (SMAC) (Ye et al. IEEE/ACM Trans Netw 12(3):493---506, 39) protocol. The results we obtained show a prominent decrease in the energy consumption at the nodes in the proposed protocol over the existing SMAC protocol, at the cost of decreasing the throughput and increasing the latency in the network. Although such an observation is not perfectly what is ideally desired, given the very limited amount of energy with which the nodes in a WSN operate, we advocate that increasing the energy efficiency of the nodes, thereby increasing the network lifetime in WSN, is a more important concern compared to throughput and latency. Additionally, similar observations relating energy efficiency, network lifetime, throughput and latency exist in many other existing protocols, including the popular SMAC protocol (Ye et al. IEEE/ACM Trans Netw 12(3):493---506, 39).