Traffic aware medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access
Utility-based asynchronous flow control algorithm for wireless sensor networks
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A fast network configuration algorithm for TDMA wireless sensor networks
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A hybrid model for accurate energy analysis of WSN nodes
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Low energy operation in WSNs: A survey of preamble sampling MAC protocols
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MACOM'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Multiple access communications
Queue-based adaptive duty cycle control for wireless sensor networks
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ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Runtime variability for dynamic reconfiguration in wireless sensor network product lines
Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 2
A survey and projection on medium access control protocols for wireless sensor networks
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Energy Efficient Networking with IEEE 802.16m Femtocell Low Duty Mode
Mobile Networks and Applications
Joint queue and sleep control for energy-efficiency and delay guarantees in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Research in Applied Computation Symposium
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DISC'12 Proceedings of the 26th international conference on Distributed Computing
PCTMC models of wireless sensor network protocols
EPEW'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Computer Performance Engineering
PCTMC models of wireless sensor network protocols
EPEW'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Computer Performance Engineering
A case for centrally controlled wireless sensor networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Mean-field analysis of data flows in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management
Duty-cycle optimization for IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Optimal nonuniform deployment of sensors for distributed detection in wireless sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Ultra low power asynchronous MAC protocol using wake-up radio for energy neutral WSN
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Energy Neutral Sensing Systems
Nested block designs: Flexible and efficient schedule-based asynchronous duty cycling
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Mobility Impact on Cluster Based MAC Layer Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
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Journal of High Speed Networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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The wireless medium being inherently broadcast in nature and hence prone to interferences requires highly optimized medium access control (MAC) protocols. This holds particularly true for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consisting of a large amount of miniaturized battery-powered wireless networked sensors required to operate for years with no human intervention. There has hence been a growing interest on understanding and optimizing WSN MAC protocols in recent years, where the limited and constrained resources have driven research towards primarily reducing energy consumption of MAC functionalities. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art study in which we thoroughly expose the prime focus of WSN MAC protocols, design guidelines that inspired these protocols, as well as drawbacks and shortcomings of the existing solutions and how existing and emerging technology will influence future solutions. In contrast to previous surveys that focused on classifying MAC protocols according to the technique being used, we provide a thematic taxonomy in which protocols are classified according to the problems dealt with. We also show that a key element in selecting a suitable solution for a particular situation is mainly driven by the statistical properties of the generated traffic.