Abstract—Previous work has shown that CSMA-based protocols such as the IEEE 802.11 can yield flow starvation in multihop wireless networks. While prior protocol designs alleviat...
Ahmed Khattab, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Edward W. Knigh...
— Growing popularity of wireless ad hoc networks leads to higher demands on performance of all TCP/IP stack layers. Usually ad hoc networks operate according to IEEE 802.11 stand...
Stepan Ivanov, Dmitri Botvich, Sasitharan Balasubr...
— This paper reverse-engineers backoff-based random-access MAC protocols in ad-hoc networks. We show that the contention resolution algorithm in such protocols is implicitly part...
Jang-Won Lee, Ao Tang, Jianwei Huang, Mung Chiang,...
—A practical protocol jointly considering PHY and MAC for MIMO based concurrent transmissions in wireless ad hoc networks, called Contrabass, is presented. Concurrent transmissio...
Sungro Yoon, Injong Rhee, Bang Chul Jung, Babak Da...
In this work, we analyze the effects of a distributed transmission coordination scheme that is particularly suited for ad hoc networks with the ability to exploit spatially–mult...