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MOBIHOC
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A unified MAC layer framework for ad-hoc networks with smart antennas
Smart antennas represent a broad variety of antennas that differ in their performance and transceiver complexity. The superior capabilities of smart antennas, however, can be leve...
Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Raghupathy Sivakumar
HICSS
2003
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Quality-of-Service-Oriented Media Access Control for Advanced Mobile Multimedia Satellite Systems
Satellite networks offer a number of desirable characteristics including wide area coverage, unique broadcast capabilities, the ability to communicate with hand-held devices, and ...
Petia Todorova, Alexander Markhasin
JSAC
2010
122views more  JSAC 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
A hybrid reservation/contention-based MAC for video streaming over wireless networks
—To reserve or not for bursty video traffic over wireless access networks has been a long-debated issue. For uplink transmissions in infrastructure-based wireless networks and p...
Ruonan Zhang, Rukhsana Ruby, Jianping Pan, Lin Cai...
SENSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
RBP: robust broadcast propagation in wireless networks
Varying interference levels make broadcasting an unreliable operation in low-power wireless networks. Many routing and resource discovery protocols depend on flooding (repeated pe...
Fred Stann, John S. Heidemann, Rajesh Shroff, Muha...
JSAC
2008
254views more  JSAC 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Cross-Layer Based Opportunistic MAC Protocols for QoS Provisionings Over Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks
We propose the cross-layer based opportunistic multi-channel medium access control (MAC) protocols, which integrate the spectrum sensing at physical (PHY) layer with the packet sch...
Hang Su, Xi Zhang