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A MAC protocol specifies how nodes in a sensor network access a shared communication channel. Desired properties of such MAC protocol are: it should be distributed and contention-free (avoid collisions); it should self-stabilize to changes in the network (such as arrival of new nodes), and these changes should be contained, i.e., affect only the nodes in the vicinity of the change; it should not assume that nodes have a global time reference, i.e., nodes may not be time-synchronized. We give the first MAC protocols that satisfy all of these requirements, i.e., we give distributed, contention-free, self-stabilizing MAC protocols which do not assume a global time reference. Our protocols self-stabilize from an arbitrary initial state, and if the network changes the changes are contained and the protocol adjusts to the local topology of the network. The communication complexity, number and size of messages, for the protocol to stabilize is small (logarithmic in network size).
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Busch, C., Magdon-Ismail, M., Sivrikaya, F., Yener, B. (2004). Contention-Free MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Guerraoui, R. (eds) Distributed Computing. DISC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3274. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30186-8_18
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