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This master thesis investigates optimizations on recently proposed fully unsynchronized power saving sensor MAC protocols. In contrast to many other sensor MAC protocols, unsynchronized sensor MAC protocols renounce on any kind of network- or cluster-wide synchronization for channel access coordination and maintenance of a common wake-sleep pattern, because in wireless sensor networks with low traffic requirements, the overhead for maintaining synchronization is likely to exceed the energy spent for the actual data traffic.
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Hurni, P. (2009). Unsynchronized Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: David, K., Geihs, K. (eds) Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS). Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92666-5_32
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