Improving latency in Crankshaft - An energy-aware MAC protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Suvesh Pratapa · Digital WPI · 2009
I would like to thank Prof. Robert Kinicki for his guidance during the two years I have been a graduate student at WPI. I picked this topic after attending his talk titled ’A Glimpse at Three Wireless Networking Problems ’ back in the Fall of 2007, and I am very pleased with the amount of challenge this work has provided me. His encouragement during my research and his thorough knowledge of the domain helped me overcome many obstacles over the course of this research. I am grateful to him for his extremely meticulous and analytical critique during the last couple of months of this thesis. He was very understanding and made sure I was undeterred in seeing it through. I am fortunate to have had him as an academic advisor as well, as he helped me make some very thoughtful choices as a graduate student. I would like to thank Mr. Gertjan Halkes from the University of Delft. As one of the original authors of Crankshaft, he was gracious enough to help me understand the intricacies of simulating the protocol. Moreover, he was the only source of help with issues regarding the OMNeT++/MiXiM simulator framework. He had a major role in helping me finish this thesis. I would like to thank everyone in the Department of Computer Science at WPI for their support during these two years. I have learnt so much here as a graduate student and a teaching assistant.