Learn all you need to know about wireless sensor networks! Protocols and Architectures for
Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the nuts and bolts of wireless …

This document provides a concise overview of energy consumption of wireless mobile
communication devices and systems on a number of abstraction layers: the hardware, the …

This paper addresses the question of optimal packet size for data communication in energy
constrained wireless sensor networks. Unlike previous work on packet length optimization in …

Broadband Powerline Communications: Network Design covers the applications of
broadband PLC systems in low-voltage supply networks, a promising candidate for the …

Featuring contributions from major technology vendors, industry consortia, and government
and private research establishments, the Industrial Communication Technology Handbook …

This paper introduces T-Lohi, a new class of distributed and energy-efficient media-access
protocols (MAC) for underwater acoustic sensor networks (UWSN). MAC design for UWSN …

The growing popularity of wireless networks has led to cases of heavy utilization and
congestion. In heavily utilized wireless networks, the wireless portion of the network is a …

Transmitting large packets over wireless networks helps to reduce header overhead, but
may have an adverse effect on loss rate due to corruptions in a radio link. Packet loss in …

The expected transmission count (ETX) metric is a new route metric for finding high-
throughput paths in multi-hop wireless networks. The ETX of a path is the expected total …

As wireless sensor networks utilize battery-operated nodes, energy efficiency is of
paramount importance at all levels of system design. In order to save energy in the transfer …