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WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Multi-Carrier Burst Contention (MCBC): Scalable Medium Access Control for Wireless Networks
—With the rapid growth of WLAN capability for mobile devices such as laptops, handhelds, mobile phones and vehicles, we will witness WLANs with very large numbers of active nodes...
Bogdan Roman, Frank Stajano, Ian J. Wassell, David...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
On the Distribution of Positioning Errors in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Simulative Comparison of Optimization Algorithms
Abstract—Recent advances in the technology of wireless electronic devices have made possible to build ad–hoc Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) using inexpensive nodes consisting ...
Stefano Tennina, Marco Di Renzo, Fortunato Santucc...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Mechanism Design-Based Multi-Leader Election Scheme for Intrusion Detection in MANET
—In this paper, we study the election of multiple leaders for intrusion detection in the presence of selfish nodes in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). To balance the resource co...
Noman Mohammed, Hadi Otrok, Lingyu Wang, Mourad De...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Minimum Symbol Error Rate Turbo Multiuser Beamforming Aided QAM Receiver
— This paper studies a novel iterative soft interference cancellation (SIC) aided beamforming receiver designed for highthroughput quadrature amplitude modulation systems communi...
Shuang Tan, Sheng Chen, Lajos Hanzo
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Performance Comparison of Uplink WLANs with Single-User and Multi-User MIMO Schemes
— In this paper, we compare the performance of wireless local area networks (WLANs) with single-user MIMO (SU-MIMO) and multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) in terms of collision probabilit...
Hu Jin, Bang Chul Jung, Ho Young Hwang, Dan Keun S...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Statistical Analysis of the IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY over Multipath Channels
Abstract— This paper shows the application of a recently proposed statistical characterization of the ultra-wideband (UWB) radio channel to the standardized IEEE 802.15.4a UWB ph...
Klaus Witrisal
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Training Structure Design Optimization for Continuous Time-Varying Fading Channels
— In fast-varying faded channels the transmission can be organized into frames where the channel estimation is mainly training-based. For fast-varying fading channels the trainin...
Stefano Savazzi, Umberto Spagnolini
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Architectures for Seamless Handover Support in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
—In this paper we study the performance of the Ambient Networks (AN) access selection architecture. We consider heterogeneous wireless networks, where mobile terminals (MTs) own ...
Marco Miozzo, Michele Rossi, Michele Zorzi
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
On Energy-Efficient and Low-Latency Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— In wireless sensor networks, one of the big challenges is to achieve a satisfactory network lifetime while meeting quality of service (QoS) requirements. In this paper,...
Zhiwen Wan, Jinsong Zhang, Hao Zhu, Kia Makki, Nik...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Optimal Strategies for Cooperative MAC-Layer Retransmission in Wireless Networks
—The concept of cooperative retransmission in wireless networks has attracted considerable research attention. The basic idea is that when a receiver cannot decode a frame, the r...
Lixiang Xiong, Lavy Libman, Guoqiang Mao