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COMCOM
2008
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Cross-layer rate control, medium access control and routing design in cooperative VANET
In this paper, we address the rate control, the Medium Access Control (MAC) and the routing problem for cooperative Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) in the framework of cross-laye...
Liang Zhou, Baoyu Zheng, Benoit Geller, Anne Wei, ...
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ADHOC
2006
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Medium Access Control protocols for ad hoc wireless networks: A survey
Studies of ad hoc wireless networks are a relatively new field gaining more popularity for various new applications. In these networks, the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols a...
Sunil Kumar, Vineet S. Raghavan, Jing Deng
INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
rDCF: a relay-enabled medium access control protocol for wireless ad hoc networks
—It is well known that IEEE 802.11 provides a physical layer multirate capability and, hence, MAC layer mechanisms are needed to exploit this capability. Several solutions have b...
Hao Zhu, Guohong Cao
TPDS
2008
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On-Demand Medium Access in Multihop Wireless Networks with Multiple Beam Smart Antennas
The paper presents a detailed discussion of various issues involved in designing a medium access control (MAC) protocol for multihop wireless networks with nodes employing multiple...
Vivek Jain, Anurag Gupta, Dharma P. Agrawal
PEWASUN
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
End-to-end performance characteristics in energy-aware wireless sensor networks
In this paper, we study end-to-end performance characteristics of S-MAC, an energy-aware medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN). WSNs are composed...
Feng Chen, Falko Dressler, Armin Heindl