An Implicit Prioritized Access Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
RTSS '02 Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
Scheduling Messages with Deadlines in Multi-Hop Real-Time Sensor Networks
RTAS '05 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Real Time on Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
PEDAMACS: Power Efficient and Delay Aware Medium Access Protocol for Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Dual-mode real-time MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks: a validation/simulation approach
InterSense '06 Proceedings of the first international conference on Integrated internet ad hoc and sensor networks
A wireless sensor networks MAC protocol for real-time applications
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Special Issue: Selected Papers of the ARCS06 Conference
A Low-delay Protocol for Multihop Wireless Body Area Networks
MOBIQUITOUS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Fourth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking&Services (MobiQuitous)
Time-Critical data delivery in wireless sensor networks
DCOSS'10 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
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The wide adoption of WSNs in healthcare is still conditioned by quality of service (QoS) issues, namely at the MAC level. Medium access protocols currently available for WSNs are incapable of providing the required QoS to healthcare applications in scenarios of emergency or intensive medical care. To fill this lacuna, this paper introduces a MAC protocol presenting novel concepts to assure the QoS of e-emergency WSNs. Preliminary validation tests showed that the proposed protocol presents a good performance regarding data transmission robustness without sacrificing the power consumption efficiency.