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INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Exploiting Multiuser Diversity for Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks
— Multiuser diversity refers to a type of diversity present across different users in a fading environment. This diversity can be exploited by scheduling transmissions so that us...
Xiangping Qin, Randall A. Berry
IPCCC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
MMAC: a mobility-adaptive, collision-free MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Mobility in wireless sensor networks poses unique challenges to the medium access control (MAC) protocol design. Previous MAC protocols for sensor networks assume static sensor no...
Muneeb Ali, T. Suleman, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A New MAC Protocol for Wireless Packet Networks
— Medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless packet networks usually need to be distributed for flexibility and robustness. In a distributed way, however, collision dete...
Jun Peng, Liang Cheng, Biplab Sikdar
PEWASUN
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
End-to-end performance characteristics in energy-aware wireless sensor networks
In this paper, we study end-to-end performance characteristics of S-MAC, an energy-aware medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN). WSNs are composed...
Feng Chen, Falko Dressler, Armin Heindl
JSAC
2011
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13 years 2 days ago
A Region-Based Clustering Mechanism for Channel Access in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
—Several contention-based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols have been proposed for the vehicles to gain the radio channels to distribute active safety messages timely, e.g., ...
Yen-Cheng Lai, Phone Lin, Wanjiun Liao, Chung-Min ...