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DCOSS
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Transmission Control Policy design for decentralized detection in sensor networks
—A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) deployed for detection applications has the distinguishing feature that sensors cooperate to perform the detection task. Therefore, the decoupled...
Ashraf Tantawy, Xenofon D. Koutsoukos, Gautam Bisw...
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LCN
1998
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Effect of Hidden Terminals on the Performance of IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol
The hidden terminal problem is unique to wireless networks and as of now, there is very limited understanding about it's effects on network performance. Results are presented...
Sumit Khurana, Anurag Kahol, Anura P. Jayasumana
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MSWIM
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Comparison of multi-channel MAC protocols
This paper compares, through analysis and simulation, a number of multichannel MAC protocols for wireless networks. We first classify these protocols into 4 categories based on t...
Jeonghoon Mo, Hoi-sheung Wilson So, Jean C. Walran...
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AINA
2010
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Gradient Based Routing Support for Cooperative Multi-channel MAC in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
— Growing popularity of wireless ad hoc networks leads to higher demands on performance of all TCP/IP stack layers. Usually ad hoc networks operate according to IEEE 802.11 stand...
Stepan Ivanov, Dmitri Botvich, Sasitharan Balasubr...
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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Aloha-Based MAC Protocols with Collision Avoidance for Underwater Acoustic Networks
— Unlike terrestrial networks that mainly rely on radio waves for communications, underwater networks utilize acoustic waves, which have comparatively lower loss and longer range...
Nitthita Chirdchoo, Wee-Seng Soh, Kee Chaing Chua