@inproceedings{pkumar_wocn09,
  title = {{A Real-Time and Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks}},
  author = {Pardeep Kumar and Mesut G{\"u}nes and Qasim Mushtaq and Bastian Blywis},
  booktitle = {6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks},
  year = {2009},
  address = {Cairo, Egypt},
  month = {April},
  organization = {IEEE},
  pages = {413--417},
  publisher = {IEEE Press},
  abstract = {This paper proposes AREA-MAC, a medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). AREA-MAC reduces latency and energy consumption of nodes by using low power listening (LPL) with short preamble messages. Other protocols like B-MAC use long preamble messages that cause higher latency, energy consumption, and control overhead on nodes. AREA-MAC provides a reasonable trade-off between vital parameters, such as system fairness, throughput, scalability, and adaptability to traffic conditions. Additionally, to minimize network latency and maximize its lifetime, two application-based optimization problems are formulated. The gain of AREA-MAC in terms of delay and energy efficiency and an OMNeT++ based simulation framework are also discussed.},
  owner = {pkumar},
  timestamp = {2009.05.04},
}