In this paper, we introduce a modified version of the IEEE 802.11a protocol and evaluate its performance. The new protocol is a combination of the standard Medium Access Control (...
In recent years, wireless sensor networking has shown great promise in applications ranging from industrial control, environmental monitoring and inventory tracking. Given the res...
Anthony Rowe, Karthik Lakshmanan, Ragunathan Rajku...
- Recently, several MAC protocols using directional antennas, typically referred to as directional MAC protocols, have been proposed for wireless ad hoc networks. However, the MAC ...
This paper determines packet level performance measures of a MAC protocol for a wireless ATM local area network. A key characteristic of the MAC protocol is the Identi er Splittin...
Benny Van Houdt, Chris Blondia, Olga Casals, Jorge...
The security of wireless sensor networks is ever more important nowadays. Most of the proposed security protocols in wireless sensor networks are based on authentication and encry...