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TWC
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
On the Performance of Distributed Polling Service-based Medium Access Control
It has been shown in the literature that many MAC protocols for wireless networks have a considerable control overhead, which limits their achievable throughput and delay performan...
Yihan Li, Shiwen Mao, Shivendra S. Panwar, Scott F...
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INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Utility-Optimal Medium Access Control: Reverse and Forward Engineering
— This paper analyzes and designs medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks through the network utility maximization (NUM) framework. We first reverse-e...
Jang-Won Lee, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderbank
SASO
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Desynchronization: The Theory of Self-Organizing Algorithms for Round-Robin Scheduling
The study of synchronization has received much attention in a variety of applications, ranging from coordinating sensors in wireless networks to models of fireflies flashing in...
Ankit Patel, Julius Degesys, Radhika Nagpal
ICC
2009
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Distributed Quality-Lifetime Maximization in Wireless Video Sensor Networks
—Owing to the availability of low-cost and low-power CMOS cameras, Wireless Video Sensor Networks (WVSN) has recently become a reality. However video encoding is still a costly p...
Eren Gürses, Yuan Lin, Raouf Boutaba
MOBICOM
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Challenges: communication through silence in wireless sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are typically characterized by a limited energy supply at sensor nodes. Hence, energy efficiency is an important issue in the system design and op...
Yujie Zhu, Raghupathy Sivakumar