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INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Performance Analysis of Contention Based Medium Access Control Protocols
—This paper studies the performance of contention based medium access control (MAC) protocols. In particular, a simple and accurate technique for estimating the throughput of the...
Gaurav Sharma, Ayalvadi J. Ganesh, Peter B. Key
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Multi-Carrier Burst Contention (MCBC): Scalable Medium Access Control for Wireless Networks
—With the rapid growth of WLAN capability for mobile devices such as laptops, handhelds, mobile phones and vehicles, we will witness WLANs with very large numbers of active nodes...
Bogdan Roman, Frank Stajano, Ian J. Wassell, David...
TWC
2008
124views more  TWC 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
On the Performance of Distributed Polling Service-based Medium Access Control
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...
ICC
2007
IEEE
133views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Impact of Interference and Medium Access Control on Flow Allocation in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
—The interaction between MAC protocols and interference in wireless multi-hop networks introduces extra constraints on achievable flow rates. In this paper, we formulate an optim...
Kun-da Wu, Wanjiun Liao
LCN
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Congestion-aware Medium Access Control Protocol for Multi-rate Ad-hoc Networks
This paper investigates the problem of how to improve TCP performance in multi-rate Ad-hoc networks with congested links. To improve network performance, different rate adaptation...
Timo Zauner, Luke Haslett, Wen Hu, Sanjay Jha, Cor...