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IEEE 802.15.4 Based Adaptive MAC Protocols

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WSANs provide the infrastructure for many applications of CPS. Lots of these applications use the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. However, it does not provide any means of differentiated services to improve QoS for time-critical and delay-sensitive events. A large amount of efforts have been made to address such issues. In this chapter, an overview on some interesting mechanisms used in existing adaptive and real-time protocols in compliance with IEEE 802.15.4 is presented. Careful examination of these research works reveals that by optimizing the original specifications and dynamically adjusting the protocol parameters, the total network efficiency can be significantly improved. Nevertheless, there are still certain challenges to overcome in pursuing the most appropriate protocol without introducing unacceptable side-effects.

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Xia, F., Rahim, A. (2015). IEEE 802.15.4 Based Adaptive MAC Protocols. In: MAC Protocols for Cyber-Physical Systems. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46361-1_4

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