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
Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks
Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks
Siphon: overload traffic management using multi-radio virtual sinks in sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
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
Wireless sensor network survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Energy conservation in wireless sensor networks: A survey
Ad Hoc Networks
Potentials of Opportunistic Routing in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
EWSN '09 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
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Convergecast traffic pattern is predominant in current wireless sensor networks. Few packets are periodically sent toward the sink, but interesting events may generate a burst of packets for a limited period of time. Such burst may create congestion in the surrounding of the event and thus may result in packet loss. Several congestion avoidance solutions exist in the literature but they either involve a lot of control messages or complicate the deployment of sensor networks. We therefore propose a new approach, named CLOMAC, which can be integrated to existing preamble-based MAC protocols. CLOMAC reduces congestion by overhearing and passively creating alternative paths toward the destination. An evaluation by simulation will demonstrate the benefits of our contribution integrated with the B-MAC protocol.