Energy-Efficient Cross-Layer Protocol of Channel-Aware Geographic-Informed Forwarding in Wireless Sensor Networks

Adaptive cross-layer MAC design for impr

Adaptive cross-layer MAC design for improved energy-efficiency in multi-channel wireless sensor networks

✍ Haythem Bany Salameh; Tao Shu; Marwan Krunz 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 368 KB

We present a novel cross-layer design for improving energy efficiency in a wireless sensor network that utilizes a multichannel non-persistent CSMA MAC protocol with adaptive MQAM modulation at the physical layer. Cross-layer interactions are achieved through joint, traffic-dependent adaptation of t