The use of contention-based MAC protocols combined with hidden terminal problems make multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks much more sensitive to load and congestion than wired netw...
Ken Tang, Katia Obraczka, Sung-Ju Lee, Mario Gerla
This paper bears on the design and the quantitative evaluation of MAC mechanisms for wireless ad-hoc networks with performance guarantees. By this, we mean mechanisms where each ac...
Wireless networking and group communication in combination allows groups of dispersed mobile users to collaborate. This paper presents AGENT, a medium access control (MAC) protocol...
— Effective and efficient management of wireless network resources is attracting more and more research attention, due to the rapid growing deployment of wireless mesh and ad hoc...