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MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
2004
Springer
In mobile ad hoc networks, synchronous communication mechanisms appear to be not suitable, since these assume that the involved entities are present at the same time during the in...
MOBIHOC
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
This paper proposes a new principle for designing MAC protocols for spread spectrum based ad hoc networks ? inducing spatial clustering in contending transmitters/receivers. We fi...
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
2004
Springer
The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particu...
INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
2005
IEEE
Abstract— We present a model for the joint design of congestion control and media access control (MAC) for ad hoc wireless networks. Using contention graph and contention matrix,...
ICDCSW
2005
IEEE
14 years 29 days ago
2005
IEEE
Smart antennas are expected to enhance scalability in ad hoc networks. This paper at first evaluates three directional MAC protocols, DMAC, MMAC and SWAMP as well as the omni-dir...