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TMC
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Mobile Data Offloading through Opportunistic Communications and Social Participation
—3G networks are currently overloaded, due to the increasing popularity of various applications for smartphones. Offloading mobile data traffic through opportunistic communicatio...
Bo Han, Pan Hui, V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav V. Marat...
TMC
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Fast Data Collection in Tree-Based Wireless Sensor Networks
—We investigate the following fundamental question—how fast can information be collected from a wireless sensor network organized as tree? To address this, we explore and evalu...
Özlem Durmaz Incel, Amitabha Ghosh, Bhaskar K...
TMC
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Resource-Aware Video Multicasting via Access Gateways in Wireless Mesh Networks
—This paper studies video multicasting in large scale areas using wireless mesh networks. The focus is on the use of Internet access gateways that allow a choice of alternative r...
Wanqing Tu, Cormac J. Sreenan, Chun Tung Chou, Arc...
TMC
2012
13 years 6 months ago
MAC in Motion: Impact of Mobility on the MAC of Drive-Thru Internet
—The pervasive adoption of IEEE 802.11 radios in the past decade has made possible for the easy Internet access from a vehicle, notably drive-thru Internet. Originally designed f...
Tom H. Luan, Xinhua Ling, Xuemin Shen
TMC
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Elevator-Assisted Sensor Data Collection for Structural Health Monitoring
—Sensor networks nowadays are widely used for structural health monitoring; for example, the sensor monitoring system deployed on the Guangzhou New TV Tower, China. While wired s...
Tao Zhang, Dan Wang, Jiannong Cao, Yi Qing Ni, Lij...
TMC
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Message Drop and Scheduling in DTNs: Theory and Practice
Abstract—In order to achieve data delivery in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN), researchers have proposed the use of store-carryand-forward protocols: a node there may store a messa...
Amir Krifa, Chadi Barakat, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulo...
TMC
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Backoff Misbehaving Nodes in CSMA/CA Networks
—Backoff misbehavior, in which a wireless node deliberately manipulates its backoff time, can induce significant network problems, such as severe unfairness and denial-of-servic...
Zhuo Lu, Wenye Wang, Cliff Wang
TMC
2012
13 years 6 months ago
TV White Space in Europe
In this paper we study the availability of TV white spaces in Europe. Specifically, we focus on the 470–790 MHz UHF band, which will predominantly remain in use for TV broadcas...
Jaap van de Beek, Janne Riihijärvi, Andreas A...
TMC
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Distributed Throughput Maximization in Wireless Networks via Random Power Allocation
—We develop a distributed throughput-optimal power allocation algorithm in wireless networks. The study of this problem has been limited due to the nonconvexity of the underlying...
Hyang-Won Lee, Eytan Modiano, Long Bao Le
TMC
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Relay-Assisted Transmission with Fairness Constraint for Cellular Networks
Abstract—We consider the problem of relay-assisted transmission for cellular networks. In the considered system, a source node together with n relay nodes are selected in a propo...
Erwu Liu, Qinqing Zhang, Kin K. Leung