PAMAS—power aware multi-access protocol with signalling for ad hoc networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Directed diffusion: a scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Mobile communications
System architecture directions for networked sensors
ASPLOS IX Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Physical layer driven protocol and algorithm design for energy-efficient wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Fine-grained network time synchronization using reference broadcasts
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - OSDI '02: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Rendezvous layer protocols for Bluetooth-enabled smart devices
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Timing-sync protocol for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Energy-efficient collision-free medium access control for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Energy and rate based MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
ACM SIGMOD Record
Bluetooth dynamic scheduling and interference mitigation
Mobile Networks and Applications
Improved interval-based clock synchronization in sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Medium access control with coordinated adaptive sleeping for wireless sensor networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
DCP: A New Data Collection Protocol for Bluetooth-Based Sensor Networks
DSD '04 Proceedings of the Digital System Design, EUROMICRO Systems
ALOHA packet system with and without slots and capture
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Versatile low power media access for wireless sensor networks
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Congestion control and fairness for many-to-one routing in sensor networks
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Sensor Data Collection with Expected Reliability Guarantees
PERCOMW '05 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
PMAC: An Adaptive Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 12 - Volume 13
Probability distributions for channel utilisation
ADHOC-NOW'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks
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The research interest in sensor nets is still growing because they simplify data acquisition in many applications. If hardware resources are very sparse, routing algorithms cannot use data gathering. However, if a large number of channels can be used, then parallel transmission can compensate this drawback. If the senders and receivers are not known in advance, then a control channel poses a bottleneck for communication. We present an oblivious MAC protocol, called the Funnel protocol, where the channels are nearly optimally utilized in parallel. In this, senders and receivers choose for a polylogarithmic number of rounds (several sending attempts) a decreasing number of channels which are selected equiprobably. Then, we show that a previously presented approach using only one round and therefore one type of probability distribution is optimal up to some constant factor, and considerably worse than the Funnel protocol. The protocol works with few resources if an sufficient number of channels is available. The Funnel protocol is simple, elegant, and does not need to know the number of senders and receivers, thus being oblivious. On the bottom line we prove that small messages can be efficiently transmitted by the MAC layer in parallel without a control channel if more than one channel for communication can be used.