@ARTICLE{Ruz06MER,
  AUTHOR =       {A.G. Ruzzelli, G.M.P O’Hare, M.J. O’Grady, R. Tynan,},
  TITLE =        {MERLIN: A synergetic integration of MAC and routing protocol for distributed sensor networks},
  JOURNAL =      {To appear in Third Annual IEEE Communication Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc
                    Communications and Networks (SECON 2006), Reston, VA, USA,},
  YEAR =         {2006},
  month =        {September 25-28},
  abstract =     {In this paper, we present a comprehensive evaluation of the MERLIN (MAC and Efficient Routing  integrated with support for localization) protocol. MERLIN integrates MAC and routing features into a single architecture. In contrast to many sensor network protocols, it employs a multicast upstream and multicast downstream approach to relaying packets to and from the gateway. Simultaneous reception and transmission errors are notified by using asynchronous burst ACK and negative burst ACK. A division of the network into timezones, together with an appropriate scheduling policy, enables the routing of packets to the closest gateway.},
  keywords =     {scheduling, energy efficient routing low latency wireless sensor network MAC},
  pdf       =    {http://www.cs.ucd.ie/csprism/research/aic.html}
}