— Recent studies have shown that designing a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol combined with a cooperative approach may improve the attainable network throughput, despite redu...
Combining end-host, server and router virtualization could offer isolated and malleable virtual networks of different types, owners and protocols, all sharing one physical infrast...
The unprecedented proliferation of wireless networking services and products has taken the notion of hotspots a step further to accommodate “mobile hotspots”. The deployment o...
Eranga Perera, Henrik Petander, Kun-Chan Lan, Arun...
Recent studies on directional Media Access Control (MAC) protocols using smart antennas for wireless ad hoc networks have shown that directional MAC protocols outperform traditiona...
Directional antennas in ad hoc networks offer many benefits compared with classical omnidirectional antennas. The most important include significant increase of spatial reuse, cov...