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NETWORKING
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Performance and Equilibrium Analysis of Heterogeneous IEEE 802.11 Based WLANs
This paper presents a general model to study the medium access control (MAC) layer performance and equilibrium of WLANs consisting of nodes with different MAC parameters (e.g., ba...
Hao Zhu
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
16 years 11 days ago
Aloha-Based MAC Protocols with Collision Avoidance for Underwater Acoustic Networks
— Unlike terrestrial networks that mainly rely on radio waves for communications, underwater networks utilize acoustic waves, which have comparatively lower loss and longer range...
Nitthita Chirdchoo, Wee-Seng Soh, Kee Chaing Chua
TPDS
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
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
IPCCC
2005
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
MMAC: a mobility-adaptive, collision-free MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Mobility in wireless sensor networks poses unique challenges to the medium access control (MAC) protocol design. Previous MAC protocols for sensor networks assume static sensor no...
Muneeb Ali, T. Suleman, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
16 years 12 days ago
Opportunistic Access with Random Subchannel Backoff (OARSB) for OFDMA Uplink
Abstract— A distributed medium access control (MAC) algorithm for uplink OFDMA networks under the IEEE 802.16 framework is proposed and analyzed in this work. We present a simple...
Yu-Jung Chang, Feng-Tsun Chien, C. C. Jay Kuo