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GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
A Distributed Directional-to-Directional MAC Protocol for Asynchronous Ad Hoc Networks
— The use of directional antennae in ad hoc networks has received growing attention in recent years. However, most existing directional MAC protocols assume interchangeable direc...
Emad Shihab, Lin Cai, Jianping Pan
BROADNETS
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Design and Analysis of a Cooperative Medium Access Scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks
This paper presents the detailed design and performance analysis of MACA-P, a RTS/CTS based MAC protocol, that enables simultaneous transmissions in wireless mesh networks. The IE...
Arup Acharya, Archan Misra, Sorav Bansal
LCN
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Packet Level Performance Characteristics of a MAC Protocol for Wireless ATM LANs
This paper determines packet level performance measures of a MAC protocol for a wireless ATM local area network. A key characteristic of the MAC protocol is the Identi er Splittin...
Benny Van Houdt, Chris Blondia, Olga Casals, Jorge...
DCOSS
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
ZeroCal: Automatic MAC Protocol Calibration
Sensor network MAC protocols are typically configured for an intended deployment scenario once and for all at compile time. This approach, however, leads to suboptimal performance...
Andreas Meier, Matthias Woehrle, Marco Zimmerling,...
ISCC
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
HomeMAC: QoS-based MAC protocol for the home network
We believe that existing wire solutions such as HomePNA2.0 and HomePlug and wireless solution such as HomeRF are the most promising solutions, because of its cost-effectiveness. H...
Won-Joo Hwang, Makoto Wada, Hideki Tode, Koso Mura...
IFIP
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Rotational Sector-Based, Receiver-Oriented Mechanism for Location Tracking and Medium Access Control in Ad Hoc Networks Using
The use of directional antenna in wireless ad hoc networks potentially increases simultaneous communication by directing the transmitting and receiving beams towards the receiver a...
Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, Dola Saha, Siuli Ro...
HICSS
2003
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Quality-of-Service-Oriented Media Access Control for Advanced Mobile Multimedia Satellite Systems
Satellite networks offer a number of desirable characteristics including wide area coverage, unique broadcast capabilities, the ability to communicate with hand-held devices, and ...
Petia Todorova, Alexander Markhasin
MOBIHOC
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Multi-channel mac for ad hoc networks: handling multi-channel hidden terminals using a single transceiver
This paper proposes a medium access control (MAC) protocol for ad hoc wireless networks that utilizes multiple channels dynamically to improve performance. The IEEE 802.11 standar...
Jungmin So, Nitin H. Vaidya
ADHOCNOW
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
MIMOMAN: A MIMO MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna systems present a radical way to improve the performance of wireless communications. Such systems can be utilized in wireless ad hoc n...
Joon-Sang Park, Mario Gerla
MSWIM
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Adaptive transmission opportunity with admission control for IEEE 802.11e networks
The increase of IEEE 802.11’s bandwidth led to a deployment of many multimedia applications over wireless networks. Nevertheless, these applications impose stringent constraints...
Adlen Ksentini, Abdelhak Guéroui, Mohamed N...