MAC protocol for low-power real-time wireless sensing and actuation

This paper presents LPRT, a new medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensing and actuation systems. Some of the characteristics of the proposed protocol are low power consumption, support for real-time and loss intolerant traffic through contention-free operation and a retransmission sc...

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Main Author: Afonso, José A. (author)
Other Authors: Rocha, L. A. (author), Silva, Henrique Jorge de Jesus Ribeiro da (author), Correia, J. H. (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/6089
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/6089