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COMCOM
2006
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Energy efficiency of collision resolution protocols
Energy consumption of the medium access control (MAC) algorithm is one of the key performance metrics in today's ubiquitous wireless networks of battery-operated devices. We ...
Aran Bergman, Moshe Sidi
COMCOM
2006
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Performance modelling and evaluation of IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function in multihop wireless networks
Initially designed for WLAN's, IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) has also been widely used in the research of multihop wireless networks. The core MAC technique of IEEE ...
Jun He, Hung Keng Pung
COMCOM
2006
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Relay node placement in large scale wireless sensor networks
Scalability and extended lifetime are two critical design goals of any large scale wireless sensor network. A two-tiered network model has been proposed recently for this purpose....
Jian Tang, Bin Hao, Arunabha Sen
COMCOM
2006
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From content distribution networks to content networks - issues and challenges
Due to the technical developments in electronics the amount of digital content is continuously increasing. In order to make digital content respectively multimedia content availab...
Thomas Plagemann, Vera Goebel, Andreas Mauthe, Lau...
COMCOM
2006
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How many sensors for an acceptable breach detection probability?
Determining the required number of sensors to be deployed is a critical decision for surveillance wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we discuss the trade-off between the num...
Ertan Onur, Cem Ersoy, Hakan Deliç
COMCOM
2006
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Research challenges in QoS routing
Quality of Service Routing is at present an active and remarkable research area, since most emerging network services require specialized Quality of Service (QoS) functionalities ...
Xavier Masip-Bruin, Marcelo Yannuzzi, Jordi Doming...
COMCOM
2006
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An open source traffic engineering toolbox
We present the TOTEM open source Traffic Engineering (TE) toolbox and a set of TE methods that we have designed and/or integrated. These methods cover intra-domain and inter-domai...
Guy Leduc, Henrik Abrahamsson, Simon Balon, Sandfo...
COMCOM
2006
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Secret instantiation in ad-hoc networks
In this paper, we focus our attention on the problem of assigning initial secrets to users in ad-hoc network (respectively, sensors in a sensor network) so that they can use those...
Sandeep S. Kulkarni, Mohamed G. Gouda, Anish Arora