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SIGCOMM
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
CarSpeak: a content-centric network for autonomous driving
This paper introduces CarSpeak, a communication system for autonomous driving. CarSpeak enables a car to query and access sensory information captured by other cars in a manner si...
Swarun Kumar, Lixin Shi, Nabeel Ahmed, Stephanie G...
CORR
2012
Springer
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12 years 10 days ago
Token-DCF: An Opportunistic MAC protocol for Wireless Networks
—IEEE 802.11 DCF is the MAC protocol currently used in wireless LANs. 802.11 DCF is inefficient due to two types of overhead; channel idle time and collision time. This paper pr...
Ghazale Hosseinabadi, Nitin H. Vaidya
ICDCS
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
Competitive and Fair Medium Access Despite Reactive Jamming
Abstract—Intentional interference constitutes a major threat for communication networks operating over a shared medium where availability is imperative. Jamming attacks are often...
Andréa W. Richa, Christian Scheideler, Stef...
EWSN
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Opportunistic Packet Scheduling in Body Area Networks
Significant research efforts are being devoted to Body Area Networks (BAN) due to their potential for revolutionizing healthcare practices. Energy-efficiency and communication re...
Kumar Shashi Prabh, Jan-Hinrich Hauer
TON
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Cooperative Adaptive Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks
The cognitive radio (CR) paradigm calls for open spectrum access according to a predetermined etiquette. Under this paradigm, CR nodes access the spectrum opportunistically by cont...
Haythem Bany Salameh, Marwan Krunz, Ossama Younis
WICOMM
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Multi-channel power-controlled directional MAC for wireless mesh networks
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have emerged recently as a technology for providing high-speed last mile connectivity in next-generation wireless networks. Several MAC protocols tha...
Fabio Martignon
TWC
2011
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12 years 11 months ago
Improving the Performance of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Through MAC Layer Design
—In this paper, the performance of the ALOHA and CSMA MAC protocols are analyzed in spatially distributed wireless networks. The main system objective is correct reception of pac...
Mariam Kaynia, Nihar Jindal, Geir E. Øien
TMC
2011
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12 years 11 months ago
MAC Layer Throughput Estimation in Impulse-Radio UWB Networks
—The inherent channel characteristics of impulse-based UWB networks affect the MAC layer performance significantly. Most previous studies on evaluating MAC protocols are based o...
Ioannis Broustis, Aggelos Vlavianos, Prashant Kris...
CORR
2010
Springer
177views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 1 months ago
AntiJam: Efficient Medium Access despite Adaptive and Reactive Jamming
Abstract--Intentional interference constitutes a major threat for communication networks operating over a shared medium where availability is imperative. Jamming attacks are often ...
Andréa W. Richa, Christian Scheideler, Stef...
IPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 1 months ago
i-MAC - a MAC that learns
Traffic patterns in manufacturing machines exhibit strong temporal correlations due to the underlying repetitive nature of their operations. A MAC protocol can potentially learn t...
Krishna Kant Chintalapudi