<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pardeep Kumar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mesut Günes</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Qasim Mushtaq</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bastian Blywis</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Real-Time and Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">April/2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://cst.mi.fu-berlin.de/publications/pdf/2009-kumar-WOCN.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cairo, Egypt</style></pub-location><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">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.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>