Abstract— The third-generation (3G) wide area wireless networks and 802.11 local area wireless networks possess complementary characteristics. 3G networks promise to offer always...
Milind M. Buddhikot, Girish P. Chandranmenon, Seun...
- The IEEE 802.11 standard is the most popular Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for wireless local area networks. However, in an ad-hoc environment, the Point Coordination Func...
Hossam S. Hassanein, Tiantong You, Hussein T. Mouf...
— Next-generation mobile communication systems will provide “always best connected” services to mobile users via cellular networks that provide wide area coverage for global ...
Internet technology is promised to provide the broadband multi-service future. Today this technology can not provide basic quality guarantees for the services rendered. Generally ...
Paul Sijben, Willem van Willigenburg, Michel de Bo...
Most of the existing medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless local area networks (WLANs) provide prioritized access by adjusting the contention window sizes or interfram...