WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
—1 In ISM bands, many wireless protocols proliferate such as 802.11, Bluetooth, and ZigBee. However, these incompatible protocols create complex coexistence and connectivity prob...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
—The application of directional antennas in wireless networks brings numerous benefits, such as increased spatial reuse and mitigated interferences. Most MAC protocols with dire...
PIMRC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
—This paper considers the performance of the MAC protocols ALOHA and CSMA in wireless ad hoc networks, where the total system bandwidth may be divided into smaller subbands. In t...
ICC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
—In this paper the performance of unslotted ALOHA and CSMA are analyzed in spatially distributed wireless networks. Users/packets arrive randomly in space and time according to a...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper develops a distributed, threshold based MAC protocol for cooperative Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) transmissions in distributed wireless systems. The protocol uses...
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—The performance of prevalent MAC protocols in MANETs relies on the level of contention in networks. While contention-based MAC protocols such as CSMA suffer from inefficiency u...
EWSN
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
Radio interference may lead to packet losses, thus negatively affecting the performance of sensornet applications. In this paper, we experimentally assess the impact of external i...