The limited number of orthogonal channels and autonomous installations of hotspots and home wireless networks often leave neighboring 802.11 basic service sets (BSSs) operating on ...
Chun-cheng Chen, Eunsoo Seo, Hwangnam Kim, Haiyun ...
Nodes in a wireless network transmit messages through a shared medium. Thus, a Media Access Control (MAC) protocol is necessary to regulate and coordinate medium access. For some a...
The performance experienced by wireless clients in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks heavily depends on the clients’ ability to identify the Access Point (AP) that will offer the be...
— Energy consumption is a main issue of concern in wireless networks. Energy minimization increases the time that networks’ nodes work properly without recharging or substituti...
— As broadcasting is widely used for miscellaneous maintenance operations in wireless ad hoc networks, where energy is a scarce resource, an efficient broadcasting protocol is o...