A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks

K Akkaya, M Younis - Ad hoc networks, 2005 - Elsevier
Recent advances in wireless sensor networks have led to many new protocols specifically
designed for sensor networks where energy awareness is an essential consideration. Most …

Congestion control mechanisms in wireless sensor networks: A survey

A Ghaffari - Journal of network and computer applications, 2015 - Elsevier
Congestion control is deemed to be one of the most significant challenges in Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSNs) which is attributed to resource constraint specification and the …

A survey on sensor networks

IF Akyildiz, W Su… - IEEE …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advancement in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the
development of low-cost sensor networks. The sensor networks can be used for various …

Wireless sensor networks: a survey

IF Akyildiz, W Su, Y Sankarasubramaniam, E Cayirci - Computer networks, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper describes the concept of sensor networks which has been made viable by the
convergence of micro-electro-mechanical systems technology, wireless communications …

HEED: a hybrid, energy-efficient, distributed clustering approach for ad hoc sensor networks

O Younis, S Fahmy - IEEE Transactions on mobile computing, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Topology control in a sensor network balances load on sensor nodes and increases network
scalability and lifetime. Clustering sensor nodes is an effective topology control approach …

An energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks

W Ye, J Heidemann, D Estrin - Proceedings. Twenty-first …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes S-MAC, a medium-access control (MAC) protocol designed for wireless
sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing …

Wireless mesh networks: a survey

IF Akyildiz, X Wang, W Wang - Computer networks, 2005 - Elsevier
Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) consist of mesh routers and mesh clients, where mesh
routers have minimal mobility and form the backbone of WMNs. They provide network …

Versatile low power media access for wireless sensor networks

J Polastre, J Hill, D Culler - … of the 2nd international conference on …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
We propose B-MAC, a carrier sense media access protocol for wireless sensor networks that
provides a flexible interface to obtain ultra low power operation, effective collision …

The flooding time synchronization protocol

M Maróti, B Kusy, G Simon, A Lédeczi - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
Wireless sensor network applications, similarly to other distributed systems, often require a
scalable time synchronization service enabling data consistency and coordination. This …

Medium access control with coordinated adaptive slee** for wireless sensor networks

W Ye, J Heidemann, D Estrin - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes S-MAC, a medium access control (MAC) protocol designed for wireless
sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing …