A Mac Protocol Implementation for Wireless Sensor Network

Game Theory based Energy Efficient Hybrid MAC Protocol for Lifetime Enhancement of Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) comprising of tiny, power-constrained nodes are getting very popular due to their potential uses in wide applications like monitoring of environmental conditions, various military and civilian applications. The critical issue in the node is energy consumption since it is operated using battery, therefore its lifetime should be maximized for effective utilization ...

Wireless Sensor Network MAC Protocol: SMAC & TMAC

Wireless sensor networks is an emergent technology which has made Ambient Intelligence a reality. It consists of several tiny nodes connected to each other in Ad hoc environment and coordinate with each other to form a network. It has wide range of applications, potential in areas such as intruder alert and tracking, environmental monitoring, industrial process monitoring, and tactical systems....

Energy-efficient Wireless Sensor Network MAC Protocol

MAC Protocol for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network: A Survey

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are wireless connected sensor’s with audio and video capabilities in addition to scalar sensing. Limited availability of bandwidth is a major constraint for multimedia data in WMSNs. The requirement of real time streaming poses another challenge in the network. Medium access control (MAC) protocols designed for traditional wireless sensor networks can...

A Qos Based Mac Protocol for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) have emerged and shifted the focus from the typical scalar wireless sensor networks to networks with multimedia devices that are capable to retrieve video, audio, images, as well as scalar sensor data. WMSNs are able to deliver multimedia content due to the availability of inexpensive CMOS cameras and microphones coupled with the significant progress ...