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PIMRC
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Comparative performance evaluation of MAC protocols in ad hoc networks with bandwidth partitioning
—This paper considers the performance of the MAC protocols ALOHA and CSMA in wireless ad hoc networks, where the total system bandwidth may be divided into smaller subbands. In t...
Mariam Kaynia, Geir E. Øien, Nihar Jindal, ...
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RTSS
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Cross-Layer Analysis of the End-to-End Delay Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks
—Emerging applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) require real-time quality of service (QoS) guarantees to be provided by the network. However, designing real-time schedu...
Yunbo Wang, Mehmet C. Vuran, Steve Goddard
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ADHOCNOW
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
MIMOMAN: A MIMO MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna systems present a radical way to improve the performance of wireless communications. Such systems can be utilized in wireless ad hoc n...
Joon-Sang Park, Mario Gerla
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INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Design and Evaluation of a Routing-Informed Cooperative MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
—Cooperative relaying has been shown to provide diversity gains which can significantly improve the Packet Error Rate (PER) in wireless transmissions. In ad hoc wireless routing...
Hermann S. Lichte, Stefan Valentin, Holger Karl, I...
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AINA
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Testbed with a Practical Smart Antenna for Directional MAC Protocols in Ad hoc Networks
Recently, several MAC protocols using directional antennas have been proposed for ad hoc networks, which are mainly evaluated by computer simulations. This paper develops a MAC pr...
Hikaru Mitsuhashi, Masahiro Watanabe, Sadao Obana,...