Aggregate traffic loads and topology in multi-hop wireless networks may vary slowly, permitting MAC protocols to `learn' how to spatially coordinate and adapt contention patte...
Abstract— The ever-increasing popularity of web services, growing demand for wireless multimedia and introduction of new, feature-enhanced, hand-held devices has already given bi...
Navrati Saxena, Maria Cristina Pinotti, Kalyan Bas...
An M/MMGI/1/K queuing model is developed for the analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF using RTS/CTS. Results are based on arbitrary contention conditions, namely, collision probabilities, ...
With the increasing popularity of wireless mesh networks (WMNs), the demand for multimedia services encompassing VoIP, multimedia streaming and interactive gaming is increasing rap...
In recent years, mobile elements (MEs) have been proposed as mechanical carriers of data to prolong the lifetime of sensor networks and to overcome network partitioning problem. A...