—In recent years, cooperative communication has been proposed as a new communication paradigm that incorporates a relay node to assist the direct point-to-point transmission. By ...
—The newly emerged vehicular ad hoc network adopts the contention based IEEE 802.11 DCF as its MAC. While it has been extensively studied in the stationary indoor environment (e....
: Today's industrial sensor networks require strong reliability and guarantees on messages delivery. These needs are even more important in real time applications like control...
— In sensor networks, MAC protocols based on Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) with wakeup and sleep periods have attracted considerable interest because of their low power co...
Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technologies have attracted a lot of attention recently due to their large bandwidth and low emission, which are suitable for in-door, high-speed multimedia c...