—Cross-layer design has been proposed as a promising paradigm to tackle various problems of wireless communication systems. Recent research has led to a variety of protocols that...
Philipp Hurni, Torsten Braun, Bharat K. Bhargava, ...
—We consider the rate allocation problem for data aggregation in wireless sensor networks with two objectives: 1) maximizing the lifetime of a local aggregation cluster and, 2) a...
Energy is a central concern in the deployment of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we investigate the energy cost of cryptographic protocols, both from a communication and ...
Abstract— A Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is being considered for commercial use in spite of several unaddressed issues. In this paper we focus on one of the most critical issues: ...
— Cooperative relaying is a promising alternative for conventional mobile communications systems as it is able to increase coverage and throughput of these systems. Due to practi...