The need for an efficient service management system in an ad-hoc network is obvious. Mobile nodes – and with them the services they provide – frequently enter and leave the ne...
The increase of IEEE 802.11’s bandwidth led to a deployment of many multimedia applications over wireless networks. Nevertheless, these applications impose stringent constraints...
Smart antennas represent a broad variety of antennas that differ in their performance and transceiver complexity. The superior capabilities of smart antennas, however, can be leve...
— The medium-access control (MAC) protocols for wireless networks proposed or implemented to date based on collision-avoidance handshakes between sender and receiver either requi...
Exploiting spatial reuse opportunities will allow more parallel transmissions and improve the throughput of wireless networks. Power control is one of the major mechanisms used to...