- The IEEE 802.11 standard is the most popular Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for wireless local area networks. However, in an ad-hoc environment, the Point Coordination Func...
Hossam S. Hassanein, Tiantong You, Hussein T. Mouf...
Sensor network MAC protocols typically sacrifice packet latency to achieve energy efficiency. Such delays may well increase due to routing protocol operation. For this reason it i...
Antonio G. Ruzzelli, Gregory M. P. O'Hare, Raja Ju...
Abstract—In this paper, we present our results on the performance of MAC protocols in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks in terms of the newly proposed metric “aggregate multi-...
Mariam Kaynia, Pedro H. J. Nardell, Paulo Cardieri...
—Wireless sensor networks consist of a number of small wireless sensor nodes which take measurements and transmit them over wireless links. As wireless sensors are resource const...
Kunjan Patel, Lim Jong Chern, Chris J. Bleakley, W...
Abstract— Unlike the terrestrial wireless networks that utilize the radio channel, underwater networks use the acoustic channel, which poses research challenges in the medium acc...