id: 06095608
dt: j
an: 06095608
au: Xiong, Peng
ti: W-MAC: a MAC protocol with modified time division multiple access for.
so: J. Comput. Appl. 31, No. 11, 2902-2904 (2011).
py: 2011
pu: Science Press, Beijing
la: ZH
cc: 
ut: Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network (UASN); Time Division Multiple Access
    (TDMA); Media Access Control (MAC) protocol
ci: 
li: doi:10.3724/SP.J.1087.2011.02902
ab: Summary: Signal transmission conditions are very poor for ocean channel. It
    is a great challenge for Media Access Control (MAC) protocol to work
    reliably and effectively in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASN).
    Due to the long and changeful propagation delay, a new MAC with
    modified TDMA named W-MAC was proposed, which could adapt underwater
    environment through simplified synchronization process, the defer time
    to allocate transmitting of all nodes as well as the detection time
    with sleep scheme to prevent from data collision to decrease the
    overhead of energy. The simulation results show W-MAC is quite
    efficient when data traffic is high in underwater acoustic sensor
    network.
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