—IEEE 802.11 DCF is the MAC protocol currently used in wireless LANs. 802.11 DCF is inefficient due to two types of overhead; channel idle time and collision time. This paper pr...
—Proximity-based mobile social networking (PMSN) refers to the social interaction among physically proximate mobile users directly through the Bluetooth/WiFi interfaces on their ...
Moving toward 4G, wireless ad hoc networks receive growing interest due to users’ provisioning of mobility, usability of services, and seamless communications. In ad hoc network...
Qian Zhang, Qing Chen, Fan Yang, Xuemin Shen, Zhis...
Abstract— Today, due to the vast amount of literature on largescale wireless networks, we have a fair understanding of the asymptotic behavior of such networks. However, in real ...
One way to reduce energy consumption in wireless sensor networks is to reduce the number of packets being transmitted in the network. As sensor networks are usually deployed with a...