— The recent investigations on interleave-division multiple-access (IDMA) have demonstrated its advantage in supporting high-data-rate and multi-rate services over wireless fadin...
Qian Huang, Sammy Chan, King-Tim Ko, Li Ping, Peng...
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...
—The inherent channel characteristics of impulse-based UWB networks affect the MAC layer performance significantly. Previous studies on evaluating MAC protocols are based on pro...
Ioannis Broustis, Aggelos Vlavianos, Prashant Kris...
fixed rate coding in terms of SNR and average throughput was obtained. In fact, the concept of variable rate adaptive In this paper, we propose a bandwidth efficient error cor- cod...
Energy is the most crucial but scarce resource in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A wealth of MAC protocols are proposed only to prolong the network lifetime for energy-efficienc...