To handle triple hidden terminal problems, this paper proposes RCO, an asynchronous multi-channel MAC protocol with random cooperation for sensor networks. By adopting a probability-based random cooperation, RCO effectively alleviates, if not eliminates, triple hidden terminal problems. More importantly, RCO is fully distributed with no requirements of time synchronization or multi-radio. Therefore, it is very easy to implement RCO in resourceconstrained wireless sensor nodes. The simulation and real testbed experimental results show that RCO achieves significant improvement in energy efficiency with increasing benefit when the number of channels and traffic loads increase, while maintaining higher throughput. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.
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Li, J., & Zhang, D. (2010). RCO: A multi-channel MAC protocol with random cooperation for sensor networks. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6406 LNCS, pp. 228–242). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16355-5_20
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