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MOBIHOC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A message ferrying approach for data delivery in sparse mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) provide rapidly deployable and self-configuring network capacity required in many critical applications, e.g., battlefields, disaster relief and ...
Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura
SECON
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
MAC-Layer Capture: A Problem in Wireless Mesh Networks using Beamforming Antennas
— Beamforming antennas have been shown to improve spatial reuse in wireless networks. Protocols that aim to exploit beamforming antennas have leveraged benefits from directional...
Romit Roy Choudhury, Nitin H. Vaidya
SUTC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Protocol assessment issues in low duty cycle sensor networks: The switching energy
Energy assessment of MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks is generally based on the times of transmit, receive and sleep modes. The switching energy between two consecutive ...
Antonio G. Ruzzelli, Gregory M. P. O'Hare, Richard...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On Collision-Tolerant Transmission with Directional Antennas
—The application of directional antennas in wireless networks brings numerous benefits, such as increased spatial reuse and mitigated interferences. Most MAC protocols with dire...
Hongning Dai, Kam-Wing Ng, Min-You Wu
SENSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Interest dissemination with directional antennas for wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks
Introducing mobile data sinks into wireless sensor networks (WSNs) improves the energy efficiency and the network lifetime, and is demanded for many application scenarios, such a...
Yihong Wu, Lin Zhang, Yiqun Wu, Zhisheng Niu