Wireless sensor networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
An adaptive energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Medium access control with coordinated adaptive sleeping for wireless sensor networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Versatile low power media access for wireless sensor networks
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
SpeckMAC: low-power decentralised MAC protocols for low data rate transmissions in specknets
REALMAN '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality
PEDAMACS: Power Efficient and Delay Aware Medium Access Protocol for Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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
SyncWUF: An Ultra Low-Power MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Medium access control in wireless sensor networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
An Adaptive Schedule Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
ICN '07 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Networking
Efficient duty cycling through prediction and sampling in wireless sensor networks
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing - Cognitive Radio, Software Defined Radio And Adaptive Wireless Systems
Signaling-Embedded Short Preamble MAC for Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks
Information Networking. Towards Ubiquitous Networking and Services
Adaptability in the B-MAC+ Protocol
ISPA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Traffic aware medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access
A low power listening MAC with scheduled wake up after transmissions for WSNs
IEEE Communications Letters
Improving preamble sampling performance in wireless sensor networks with state information
WONS'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services
A real-time and energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
WOCN'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks
Schedule Adaptation of Low-Power-Listening Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Dynamic sleep time control in wireless sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Crankshaft: an energy-efficient MAC-protocol for dense wireless sensor networks
EWSN'07 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Wireless sensor networks
A MAC protocol with adaptive preloads considering low duty-cycle in WSNs
MSN'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks
DPS-MAC: an asynchronous MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
HiPC'07 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on High performance computing
Duty Cycle Control for Low-Power-Listening MAC Protocols
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Medium access control with an energy-efficient algorithm for wireless sensor networks
PWC'06 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC6 international conference on Personal Wireless Communications
An ultra low power medium access control protocol with the divided preamble sampling
UCS'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Ubiquitous Computing Systems
MaxMAC: a maximally traffic-adaptive MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
EWSN'10 Proceedings of the 7th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
ZeroCal: automatic MAC protocol calibration
DCOSS'10 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Extending network lifetime using an automatically tuned energy-aware MAC protocol
EWSN'06 Proceedings of the Third European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
MAC Essentials for Wireless Sensor Networks
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks: a survey
IEEE Communications Magazine
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The limited energy resources of sensor nodes are among the most important constraints in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Consequently, the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer design is crucial, due to its influence on the transceiver, which is the most energy-consuming component of a sensor node. Among the different MAC protocols designed for WSNs, preamble sampling techniques provide extremely low energy consumption at low loads and have a notably simple operation and a lack of synchronisation requirements, which are characteristics that are especially appealing to WSNs. In this work, a survey of the different types of MAC protocols designed for WSNs is presented with a special focus on preamble sampling MAC protocols. The aim of this work is to give a detailed overview and classification of the most relevant preamble sampling MAC protocols, being motivated by the extremely large number of MAC protocols designed for WSNs in recent years. Moreover, a simple set of guidelines for matching the most suitable MAC protocol category to a given application is provided in this work.