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COMCOM
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Guaranteeing the network lifetime in wireless sensor networks: A MAC layer approach
Energy is the most crucial but scarce resource in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A wealth of MAC protocols are proposed only to prolong the network lifetime for energy-efficienc...
Yongsub Nam, Taekyoung Kwon, Hojin Lee, Hakyung Ju...
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 29 days ago
STiCMAC: A MAC Protocol for Robust Space-Time Coding in Cooperative Wireless LANs
Relay-assisted cooperative wireless communication has been shown to have significant performance gains over the legacy direct transmission scheme. Compared with single relay base...
Pei Liu, Chun Nie, Thanasis Korakis, Elza Erkip, S...
NETWORKING
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Combining Source- and Localized Recovery to Achieve Reliable Multicast in Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks
This paper proposes a novel reliable multicast transport protocol for multi-hop, wireless ad hoc networks (or MANETs). To recover from the different types of losses that may occur ...
Venkatesh Rajendran, Katia Obraczka, Yunjung Yi, S...
ADHOCNOW
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Circularity-Based Medium Access Control in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract. The RTS/CTS access scheme, designed to reduce the number of collisions in a IEEE 802.11 network, is known to exhibit problems due to masked nodes, the imbalance between t...
Mohammad Z. Ahmad, Damla Turgut, R. Bhakthavathsal...
VTC
2007
IEEE
159views Communications» more  VTC 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Data Fragmentation Scheme in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks
— The IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is designed for low data rate, short distance and low power communication applications such as Wireless Sensor Networks (...
Jongwon Yoon, Hyogon Kim, Jeong-Gil Ko