ICNP
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol, called Quality-ofservice Guarantee Multiple Access (QGMA), in wireless local area networks to support the quality of service requir...
DISCEX
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
The IEEE 802.11x MAC protocol, the de facto standard for wireless LANs, includes a distributed coordination function (DCF) mode usable for ad hoc network architectures. The Transm...
WDAG
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. A MAC protocol specifies how nodes in a sensor network access a shared communication channel. Desired properties of such MAC protocol are: it should be distributed and c...
WOWMOM
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
— Many MAC sub-layer protocols for supporting the usage of directional antennas in ad hoc networks have been proposed in literature. However, there remain two open issues that ar...
ICDCSW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Recently, several directional MAC protocols using smart antennas or directional antennas have been proposed for wireless ad hoc networks including our proposed MAC protocol called...
BROADNETS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
This paper presents AMCM, a traffic-adaptive multichannel MAC protocol that increases the capacity of wireless network by enabling multiple concurrent transmissions on orthogonal...
BROADNETS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
— Medium access control (MAC) protocols have been studied under different contexts for several years now. In all these MAC protocols, nodes make independent decisions on when to ...
ICC
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
— In this paper, we develop contention-based medium access control (MAC) schemes for both best-effort data transmissions and delay-sensitive multimedia transmissions over WLANs. ...
ICC
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
—The interaction between MAC protocols and interference in wireless multi-hop networks introduces extra constraints on achievable flow rates. In this paper, we formulate an optim...
AINA
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
Recently, several MAC protocols using directional antennas have been proposed for ad hoc networks, which are mainly evaluated by computer simulations. This paper develops a MAC pr...