IEEE 802.11 MAC, called the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF), employs carrier sensing to effectively avoid collisions, but this makes it difficult to maximally reuse the sp...
— Key management has long been a challenging problem in wireless Distributed Sensor Networks (DSNs) due to their high security requirements and strict resource constraints. Recen...
Abstract — Wireless frequency resources are often the limiting factor for WLAN throughput. Hence, wireless channel management is needed to mitigate co-channel interference and im...
Yongqiang Liu, William Wu, Bo Wang, Tao He, Su Yi,...
—An energy-efficient, reliable and timely data transmission is essential for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) employed in scenarios where plant information must be available for ...
Pan Gun Park, Carlo Fischione, Alvise Bonivento, K...
— Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are seen as an essential technology to support future Pervasive Computing Scenarios and 4G networks. In a MANET, efficient support of multipoint...