The most widespread Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are based today on the IEEE 802.11 standard and its various versions, especially the IEEE 802.11b. In this article we first...
Sensor nets have many undisputed fields of application. A paradigm of communication is the use of one control channel in the MAC layer. We challenge this paradigm for nodes with v...
The growing success of wireless ad hoc networks and portable hardware devices presents many interesting problems to software engineers. Particular, coordination is a challenging t...
Marco Tulio de Oliveira Valente, Fernando Magno Qu...
Several applications have been envisioned for multihop wireless networks that require different qualities of service from the network. In order to support such applications, the n...
Kimaya Sanzgiri, Ian D. Chakeres, Elizabeth M. Bel...
: Railway systems are critical in many regions, and can consist of several tens of thousands of bridges, being used over several decades. It is critical to have a system to monitor...