The Evolution of MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

By Pei Huang, Li Xiao, Soroor Soltani, Matt W. Mutka, Ning Xi. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2013

613 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Lars Michael Kristensen
2. Knut Øvsthus
3. Admar Ajith Kumar Somappa
4. Kofi Sarpong Adu-Manu
5. Zesong Fei
6. Hsiao-Hwa Chen
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In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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2. Lars Michael Kristensen
3. Knut Øvsthus
4. Admar Ajith Kumar Somappa
5. Zesong Fei
6. Hsiao-Hwa Chen
7. Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman
8. Lajos Hanzo

Citations in the corpus

• An Industrial Perspective on Wireless Sensor Networks — A Survey of Requirements, Protocols, and Challenges (2014, methodology): “With time, design of MAC protocols has evolved [95] through different design goals, different techniques, and also different criteria have been used to classify the protocols.”
• A Survey of Multi-Objective Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks: Metrics, Algorithms, and Open Problems (2016, background): “A range of surveys have been dedicated to diverse singleobjective research domains in WSNs, such as their energy efficiency [25], routing [26], congestion control [27], their MAC protocols [28], data collection [6], privacy and security [29], localization [30], [31], cross-layer QoS guarantees [32],”
• Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (EH-WSNs) (2018, background): “MAC layer synchronous protocols that rely on sharing nodes’ sleeping schedules are unsuitable for EH-WSNs, since the nodes’ charging periods (in which the node is considered to be unavailable for communication) may coincide with the wake up periods (Huang et al. 2013).”
• Energy-Efficient Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey (2014, background): “Main goal of [5] is the latest progresses in WSN MAC protocol designs over the period 2002-2011.”
• M2M Communications in 3GPP LTE/LTE-A Networks: Architectures, Service Requirements, Challenges, and Applications (2015, background): “In the literature, various energy-efficient MAC protocols [16], [90], [91] exist that can be implemented in M2M system to”