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AHSWN
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Control Frame Shaping in Power Controlled and Directional MAC Protocols?
This paper discusses the ideal shapes of control frames (i.e., RTS/CTS frames) in the IEEE 802.11 MAC layer for efficient power control and directional beam forming in mobile ad h...
Fei Dai, Jie Wu
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Directional MAC Protocol for Practical Smart Antennas
- Recently, several MAC protocols using directional antennas, typically referred to as directional MAC protocols, have been proposed for wireless ad hoc networks. However, the MAC ...
Yuya Takatsuka, Katsushiro Nagashima, Masanori Tak...
ALGOSENSORS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
WiseMAC: An Ultra Low Power MAC Protocol for Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks
WiseMAC is a medium access control protocol designed for wireless sensor networks. This protocol is based on non-persistent CSMA and uses the preamble sampling technique to minimiz...
Amre El-Hoiydi, Jean-Dominique Decotignie
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A MAC Protocol with Directional Antennas for Deafness Avoidance in Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract—Directional antennas are expected to provide significant improvements over omni-directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks. Directional MAC protocols, however, int...
Masanori Takata, Masaki Bandai, Takashi Watanabe
CN
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Performance evaluation of MAC transmission power control in wireless sensor networks
In this paper we provide a method to analytically compute the energy saving provided by the use of transmission power control (TPC) at the MAC layer in wireless sensor networks (W...
Javier Vales-Alonso, Esteban Egea-López, Al...