Abstract—This paper considers maximizing throughput utility in a multi-user network with partially observable Markov ON/OFF channels. Instantaneous channel states are never known...
IEEE 802.11e is a wireless local area networking standard introducing quality of service. It defines new MAC protocols, mainly HCF and EDCF. EDCF is a contentionbased channel acce...
Mounir Frikha, Fatma Ben Said, Lilia Maalej, Faiza...
—Conventional 802.11 medium access control (MAC) characteristics. In particular, all of these designs adopted a protocols have been designed separately from the characteristics s...
— In recent years, the wireless mesh network (WMN) attracts the interest of many people as a new broadband Internet access technology. However, increasing throughput is still an ...
IEEE 802.22 wireless regional area network (WRAN) is an emerging cognitive radio-based system. One of the major challenges for WRANs is how to efficiently schedule both channel sen...