It is a challenging task for multi-hop wireless networks to support multimedia applications with quality-ofservice (QoS) requirements. This letter presents a joint crosslayer optim...
Khoa T. Phan, Hai Jiang, Chintha Tellambura, Sergi...
Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless communication is a promising spread-spectrum technology that supports very high data rates and provides precise position information of mobile users. ...
Abstract--Distributed medium access control (MAC) is essential for a wireless network without a central controller. In previous work of the authors, a distributed MAC scheme has be...
Hai Jiang, Ping Wang, Weihua Zhuang, H. Vincent Po...
—It is well known that IEEE 802.11 provides a physical layer multirate capability and, hence, MAC layer mechanisms are needed to exploit this capability. Several solutions have b...
It has been shown in the literature that many MAC protocols for wireless networks have a considerable control overhead, which limits their achievable throughput and delay performan...
Yihan Li, Shiwen Mao, Shivendra S. Panwar, Scott F...