DCO-MAC: A Hybrid MAC Protocol for Data Collection in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2018 In underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs), medium access control (MAC) is an important issue because of its potentially significant effect on the network performance.
Min Deng, Huifang Chen, Lei Xie
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Packet Flow Based Reinforcement Learning MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Medium access control (MAC) is one of the key requirements in underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs). For a MAC protocol to provide its basic function of efficient sharing of channel access, the highly dynamic underwater environment demands MAC ...
Ibrahim B. Alhassan, Paul D. Mitchell
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An Efficient Scalable Scheduling MAC Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2018 Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs) utilise acoustic waves with comparatively lower loss and longer range than those of electromagnetic waves. However, energy remains a challenging issue in addition to long latency, high bit error rate, and limited ...
Faisal Alfouzan +3 more
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Minimizing the Adverse Effects of Asymmetric Links: A Novel Cooperative Asynchronous MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2019 As Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) grow in popularity, researchers are now focusing more on some challenging issues that significantly degrade overall performance, such as energy hole mitigation, link asymmetry minimization, etc.
Md. Mahedee Hasan +3 more
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OCA-MAC: A Cooperative TDMA-Based MAC Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2019 Cooperative communication is an effective method of improving the transmission performance for vehicular ad hoc networks. However, the rapid movement of vehicles leads to frequent changes in network topology and reduces the probability of successful data
Yao Liu, Hongjing Zhou, Jiawei Huang
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SAFE-MAC: Speed Aware Fairness Enabled MAC Protocol for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2019 Highly dynamic geographical topology, two-direction mobility, and varying traffic density can lead to fairness issues in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs).
Md. Abubakar Siddik +3 more
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Performance of the UV Multinode Network Under the Lossless Contention MAC Protocol
IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022 Ultraviolet (UV) networks are important approaches to modern wireless communications owing to their unique characteristics, such as non-line-of-sight communication, strong anti-interference ability, and all-weather working mode.
Cheng Li +7 more
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Connectivity-Based Reliable Multicast MAC Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2009 We propose the efficient reliable multicast MAC protocol based on the connectivity information among the recipients. Enhancing the BMMM (Batch Mode Multicast MAC) protocol, the reliable multicast MAC protocol significantly reduces the RAK (Request for ...
Woo-Yong Choi
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Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, 2023 Over the past two decades, hundreds of protocols have been developed for diversified applications of WSN corresponding to different layers in the communication stack.
Shama Siddiqui +2 more
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Graph coloring-based multichannel MAC protocol in distributed underwater acoustic sensor networks
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 In this paper, the multichannel medium access control (MAC) problem in distributed underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) were investigated. Compared with single-channel MAC protocols in terrestrial radio networks, there exist multichannel hidden ...
Yunlong Wei, Deqing Wang
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