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ICWMC
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
An Overview of MAC Protocols with Directional Antennas in Wireless ad hoc Networks
Although directional antennas have been used in mobile communications systems for quite a long time, realistic applications of directional or smart antennas in wireless ad hoc net...
Hongning Dai, Kam-Wing Ng, Min-You Wu
WCNC
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Throughput and Delay Performance Analysis of Packet Aggregation Scheme for PRMA
—Packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) protocol is an implicit reservation MAC protocol. It is initially designed for voice packets in the cellular networks [2], [3] but it is...
Qi Zhang, Villy Bæk Iversen, Frank H. P. Fit...
CN
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Performance evaluation of MAC transmission power control in wireless sensor networks
In this paper we provide a method to analytically compute the energy saving provided by the use of transmission power control (TPC) at the MAC layer in wireless sensor networks (W...
Javier Vales-Alonso, Esteban Egea-López, Al...
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Dynamic packet fragmentation for wireless channels with failures
It was shown recently [7?9], under quite general conditions, that retransmission-based protocols may result in power-law delays and possibly zero throughput even if the distributi...
Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Jian Tan