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...
Abstract. Design of distributed architectures for content-based publish-subscribe (pub-sub) service networks has been a challenging problem. To best support the highly dynamic and ...
Abstract— Cooperative diversity facilitates spatio-temporal communications without requiring the deployment of physical antenna arrays. While physical layer studies on cooperativ...
Gentian Jakllari, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, Micha...
— The IEEE 802.16j protocol for a multi-hop relay (MMR) WiMAX network is being developed to increase data rates and extend service coverage as an enhancement of existing WiMAX st...
Discovery of services and other named resources is expected to be a crucial feature for the usability of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). In this paper, we propose a mechanism for...