Growing levels of digitalization and broadband access drives extremely fast progress in multimedia and networking technologies and allows consumers to create requirements at an ac...
Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in interactive cloud based software applications (e.g. working on remote machines, online games, interactive websites such as financia...
IEEE 802.11 MAC, called the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF), employs carrier sensing to effectively avoid collisions, but this makes it difficult to maximally reuse the sp...
The IEEE 802.16 technology is emerging as a promising solution for BWA due to its ability to support multimedia services and to operate in multiple physical environments. Also, wi...
This paper bears on the design and the quantitative evaluation of MAC mechanisms for wireless ad-hoc networks with performance guarantees. By this, we mean mechanisms where each ac...