—Enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) is the basis protocol in IEEE 802.11e protocol suite. It is used for providing differentiated quality of service (QoS) in IEEE 802.11e...
—Duty-cycle MAC protocols have been proposed to meet the demanding energy requirements of wireless sensor networks. Although existing duty-cycle MAC protocols such as S-MAC are p...
— As broadcasting is widely used for miscellaneous maintenance operations in wireless ad hoc networks, where energy is a scarce resource, an efficient broadcasting protocol is o...
The third generation of mobile networks aims to offer services diversified to users, while guaranteeing acceptable QoS. This results in the setting up of strategies of increasingl...
Wireless multi-hop networks are particularly susceptible to attacks based on flooding and the interception, tampering with, and forging of packets. Thus, reliable communication in...