Muneeb Ali, Umar Saif, Adam Dunkels, Thiemo Voigt, Kay Römer, Koen Langendoen, Joseph Polastre, and Zartash Uzmi
"Medium Access Control Issues in Sensor Networks"
ACM SIGCOMM CCR, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 33-36, April 2006.

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Abstract

Medium access control for wireless sensor networks has been a very active research area for the past couple of years. The sensor networks literature presents an alphabet soup of medium access control protocols with almost all of the works focusing only on energy efficiency. There is much more innovative work to be done at the MAC layer, but current efforts are not addressing the hard unsolved problems. Majority of the works appearing in the literature are "least publishable incremental improvements" over the popular S-MAC [1] protocol. In this paper we present research directions for future medium access research. We identify some open issues and discuss possible solutions.

Bibtex Entry

Muneeb Ali, Umar Saif, Adam Dunkels, Thiemo Voigt, Kay Römer, Koen Langendoen, Joseph Polastre, and Zartash Afzal Uzmi, "Medium Access Control Issues in Sensor Networks", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (ACM CCR), vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 33-36, April 2006.

@article{ali06mac_ccr,
author = {Muneeb Ali and Umar Saif and Adam Dunkels and Thiemo Voigt
and Kay R{\"o}mer and Koen Langendoen and Joseph Polastre and Zartash Afzal Uzmi},
title = {Medium Access Control Issues in Sensor Networks},
journal = {ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review},
volume = {36},
number = {2},
year = {2006},
month = APR,
issn = {0146-4833},
pages = {33-36},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1129582.1129592},
publisher = {ACM Press},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
};