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INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Design and Evaluation of a Routing-Informed Cooperative MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
—Cooperative relaying has been shown to provide diversity gains which can significantly improve the Packet Error Rate (PER) in wireless transmissions. In ad hoc wireless routing...
Hermann S. Lichte, Stefan Valentin, Holger Karl, I...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Cooperative MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
Cooperative communications fully leverages the broadcast nature of the wireless channel and spatial diversity, thereby achieving tremendous improvements in system capacity and dela...
Thanasis Korakis, Zhifeng Tao, Yevgeniy Slutskiy, ...
BROADNETS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
CAM-MAC: A Cooperative Asynchronous Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
— Medium access control (MAC) protocols have been studied under different contexts for several years now. In all these MAC protocols, nodes make independent decisions on when to ...
Tie Luo, Mehul Motani, Vikram Srinivasan
AINA
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Testbed with a Practical Smart Antenna for Directional MAC Protocols in Ad hoc Networks
Recently, several MAC protocols using directional antennas have been proposed for ad hoc networks, which are mainly evaluated by computer simulations. This paper develops a MAC pr...
Hikaru Mitsuhashi, Masahiro Watanabe, Sadao Obana,...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Cooperating with Smartness: Using Heterogeneous Smart Antennas in Ad-Hoc Networks
Abstract— The ability of smart antennas to improve performance in a typically constrained ad-hoc network environment, has helped them garner significant attention over the last ...
Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Raghupathy Sivakumar