To adapt the data rate in accordance with the quality of the link, the IEEE 802.11 standard proposes the variable rate shifting functionality. This intrinsic functionality of the ...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Abstract—This paper focuses on designing a distributed medium access control algorithm that aims at achieving time fairness among contending stations and throughput maximization ...
Yuan Le, Liran Ma, Wei Cheng, Xiuzhen Cheng, Biao ...
Due to hidden terminals and a dynamic topology, contention among stations in an ad-hoc network is not homogeneous. Some stations are at a disadvantage in opportunity of access to ...
Abstract—In order to ensure fair access and efficiency of bandwidth usage in wireless integrated networks, resource allocation algorithms should be well designed. In this paper,...