— The IEEE 802.11e standard supports a Direct-Link Setup (DLS) mechanism optionally to improve the throughput. Using this mechanism, IEEE 802.11e stations in proximity can direct...
— We consider energy efficient packet forwarding with quality-of-service (QoS) guarantee for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In most existing wireless network protocols, route ...
Abstract— This work is concerned with definining a performance index that can be used as an objective measure in the evaluation and comparison of ad hoc networking protocols. Sp...
Contour mapping is a crucial part of many wireless sensor network applications. Many efforts have been made to avoid collecting data from all the sensors in the network and produc...
Abstract— Online feedback-based rating systems are gaining popularity. Dealing with unfair ratings in such systems has been recognized as an important but difficult problem. Thi...