SIES
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract--In distributed embedded systems operated by battery, energy management is a critical issue that has to be addressed at different architecture levels. For systems that tig...
GLOBECOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Energy conservation is one of the primary goals of the majority of MAC protocols designed for wireless sensor networks. In Sensor-MAC (S-MAC), one of the first MAC protocols design...
VTC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
—Some mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) such as inter-vehicle communications require a transmission scheme that is robust to mobility and asynchronous reception with low setup over...
IJSNET
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
— In this paper, we propose a new dual radio medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks. Our MAC protocol design combines the advantages of low and high fr...
TMC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
There is a vast literature on the throughput analysis of the IEEE 802.11 media access control (MAC) protocol. However, very little has been done on investigating the interplay betw...
ADHOC
2005
13 years 4 months ago
2005
- The IEEE 802.11 standard is the most popular Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for wireless local area networks. However, in an ad-hoc environment, the Point Coordination Func...
JSAC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Abstract--We address several inter-related aspects of underwater network design within the context of a cross-layer approach. We first highlight the impact of key characteristics o...
JSAC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Although there are many MAC protocols that have been proposed for terrestrial wireless networks with a wide variety of aspects, these protocols cannot be applied directly in underw...
CN
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
We analyze the capacity of ultra-wide band (UWB) wireless access networks supporting multimedia services by calculating the number of multimedia connections that can be supported ...
ADHOC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Abstract. The IEEE 802.11 MAC layer is known for its unfairness behavior in ad hoc networks. Introducing fairness in the 802.11 MAC protocol may lead to a global throughput decreas...