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INFOCOM
1997
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Investigation of the IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC)
Analysis of the drafi IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) standard is needed to characterize the expected performance of the standard’s ad hoc and infrastructure netw...
Brian P. Crow, Indra Widjaja, Jeong Geun Kim, Pres...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
A Packing Approach to Compare Slotted and Non-Slotted Medium Access Control
— In multi-hop ad hoc networks, the efficiency of a medium access control protocol under heavy traffic load depends mainly on its ability to schedule a large number of simultan...
Mathilde Durvy, Patrick Thiran
ICWN
2009
14 years 9 months ago
Efficient Medium Access Control with IEEE 802.11 for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
The IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol has inherent weakness of channel wastage while operating a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET). In this paper, we therefore propose s...
Zalal Uddin Mohammad Abusina, Mesbah Uddin, Salahu...
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Medium Access Control Protocols using Directional Antennas in Ad Hoc Networks
—Using directional antennas can be beneficial for wireless ad hoc networks consisting of a collection of wireless hosts. To best utilize directional antennas, a suitable Medium ...
Young-Bae Ko, Vinaychandra Shankarkumar, Nitin H. ...
TWC
2008
112views more  TWC 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Service time analysis of a distributed medium access control scheme
Abstract--Distributed medium access control (MAC) is essential for a wireless network without a central controller. In previous work of the authors, a distributed MAC scheme has be...
Hai Jiang, Ping Wang, Weihua Zhuang, H. Vincent Po...