Wireless sensor networks: a survey
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...A large scientific literature has been produced on sensor networks in the recent past, addressing several problems at all layers of the protocol stack [22]....
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...This type of WMNs includes mesh routers forming an infrastructure for clients that connect to them....
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...Thus, protocols proposed for mobile ad hoc networks [34] and wireless sensor networks [8,9] are too cumbersome to achieve satisfactory performance in this application....
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...Dramatic advances in RF and microelectromechanical (MEMS) IC design have made possible the use of large networks of wireless sensors for a variety of new monitoring and control applications [ 63 ], [64]....
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...Recent advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and low power and highly integrated digital electronics have led to the development of micro sensors [1][2][3][4][5]....
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...The growing interest in wireless sensor networks and the continual emergence of new architectural techniques inspired some previous efforts for surveying the characteristics, applications and communication protocols for such a technical area [1][13]....
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...23 SAR: Sequential Assignment Routing (SAR) is the first protocol for sensor networks that includes the notion of QoS in its routing decisions [1][2]....
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...The goal of [1] is to make a comprehensive survey of design issues and techniques for sensor networks describing the physical constraints on sensor nodes and the protocols proposed in all layers of network stack....
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...Constant listening times and adaptive rate control schemes can also help achieve energy efficiency in random access schemes for sensor networks [93]....
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...The low-power sensor device described in [93], uses a single channel RF transceiver operating at 916 MHz....
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...CSMA based medium access: A CSMA based MAC scheme for sensor networks is presented in [93]....
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...Thus far, both fixed allocation and random access versions of medium access have been proposed [83,93]....
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...As reported and based on simulations in [93], the constant listen periods are energy efficient and the introduction of random delay provides robustness against repeated collisions....
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...In addition, these influencing factors can be used to compare different schemes....
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...In general, the density can be as high as 20 sensor nodes/m3 [77]....
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...Though the higher computational powers are being made available in smaller and smaller processors, processing and memory units of sensor nodes are still scarce resources....
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...Though many schemes for medium access have been proposed for MANETs [85, 94 ,95] the design of an efficient MAC scheme for the new regime of sensor networks is still an open research issue....
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