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WINET
2008
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Interference power statistics in ad-hoc and sensor networks
Abstract There exist accurate calculation methods for estimation of interference power sum statistics in fixedtopology wireless networks based on the log-normal shadowing radio mod...
Ramin Hekmat, Piet Van Mieghem
TWC
2008
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On the Performance of Distributed Polling Service-based Medium Access Control
It has been shown in the literature that many MAC protocols for wireless networks have a considerable control overhead, which limits their achievable throughput and delay performan...
Yihan Li, Shiwen Mao, Shivendra S. Panwar, Scott F...
TMC
2008
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A Hybrid Token-CDMA MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Token passing medium access control (MAC) protocols are gaining interest amongst wireless ad hoc network researchers as they provide unrivalled advantages over the existing IEEE 80...
I-Sheng Liu, Fambirai Takawira, Hong-Jun Xu
JSAC
2008
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Cross-Layer Based Opportunistic MAC Protocols for QoS Provisionings Over Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks
We propose the cross-layer based opportunistic multi-channel medium access control (MAC) protocols, which integrate the spectrum sensing at physical (PHY) layer with the packet sch...
Hang Su, Xi Zhang
JIPS
2008
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MMMP: A MAC Protocol to Ensure QoS for Multimedia Traffic over Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks
: In this paper, we discuss a novel reservation-based, asynchronous MAC protocol called `Multi-rate Multi-hop MAC Protocol' (MMMP) for multi-hop ad hoc networks that provides ...
Sunil Kumar, Mahasweta Sarkar, Supraja Gurajala, J...
CN
2007
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A survey on ultra wide band medium access control schemes
Ultra wideband (UWB) technology based primarily on the impulse radio paradigm has a huge potential for revolutionizing the world of digital communications especially wireless comm...
Ashima Gupta, Prasant Mohapatra
ADHOC
2006
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Medium Access Control protocols for ad hoc wireless networks: A survey
Studies of ad hoc wireless networks are a relatively new field gaining more popularity for various new applications. In these networks, the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols a...
Sunil Kumar, Vineet S. Raghavan, Jing Deng
MASCOTS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Performance Analysis of Wireless MAC Protocols Using a Search Based Framework
—Previously, we have developed a framework to perform systematic analysis of CSMA/CA based wireless MAC protocols. The framework first identifies protocol states that meet our ...
Shamim Begum, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Ahmed Helmy
BROADNETS
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
DCC-MAC: A Decentralized MAC Protocol for 802.15.4a-like UWB Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Based on Dynamic Channel Coding
We present a joint PHY/MAC architecture (DCC-MAC) for 802.15.4a-like networks based on PPM-UWB. Unlike traditional approaches it fully utilizes the specific nature of UWB to achie...
Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Bozidar Radunovic...
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Brief announcement: towards robust medium access in multi-hop networks
This paper introduces the distributed MAC protocol Jade. We consider a multi-hop wireless network with a single communication channel in which a powerful adversary is able to jam ...
Andréa W. Richa, Jin Zhang, Christian Schei...