—This paper presents a theoretical estimation for idle channel time in a multi-hop environment. Idle channel time is the time proportion of a node during which the channel state ...
Abstract—Impulse Radio Ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) communication has proven an important technique for supporting highrate, short-range, low-power communication. These are necessary ...
—How to efficiently use the air interface is a crucial issue in wireless networks. In order to improve the performance, mechanisms have been proposed to improve the reach and th...
— With the expansion of cloud-based services, the question as to how to control usage of such large distributed systems has become increasingly important. Load balancing (LB), an...
—In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) for rural public safety. First, we discuss a QoS enhancement to a standard routing protocol, D...
Chad Bohannan, Li Zhang, Jian Tang, Richard S. Wol...