An ad-hoc network is formed when a group of wireless nodes pledge to help each other in passing packets based upon a pre-agreed protocol. Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm (TOR...
Distributedmultimedia applicationsrequire performanceguarantees from the underlying network subsystem. Ethernet has been the dominant local area network architecture in the last d...
Group communication is becoming increasingly popular in Internet applications such as videoconferences, online chatting programs, games, and gambling. For secure communications, th...
There are many difficult challenges ahead in the design of an energy-efficient communication stack for wireless sensor networks. Due to the severe sensor node constraints, protocol...
— 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...