— In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), the hidden and the exposed terminal problems affect the throughput of the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols. Several MAC schemes have be...
Increasing need for people to be “connected”; while at the same time remain as mobile as ever poses several interesting issues in wireless networks. It is conceivable in the n...
Alok Nandan, Shirshanka Das, Giovanni Pau, Mario G...
Bluetooth is a promising wireless technology aiming at supporting electronic devices to be instantly interconnected into short-range ad hoc networks. The Bluetooth medium access co...
Carlos de M. Cordeiro, Sachin Abhyankar, Dharma P....
—Coupling Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) with wired networks such as the Internet via access points creates a difficult mix of highly mobile nodes and a static infrastructur...
Recently, several directional MAC protocols using smart antennas or directional antennas have been proposed for wireless ad hoc networks including our proposed MAC protocol called...