This paper bears on the design and the quantitative evaluation of MAC mechanisms for wireless ad-hoc networks with performance guarantees. By this, we mean mechanisms where each ac...
Abstract--Cooperative communications have been demonstrated to be effective in combating the multiple fading effects in wireless networks, and improving the network performance in ...
Xuedong Liang, Ilangko Balasingham, Victor C. M. L...
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) balance costs and quality in services related to content delivery. This has urged many Web entrepreneurs to make contracts with CDNs. In the liter...
Konstantinos Stamos, George Pallis, Athena Vakali,...
Carrier Sense Multi-Access (CSMA) is a typical method to share the common channel in a Wireless LAN (WLAN). It works fairly well in times of light traffic. However as the number of...
This work considers the mini-slot scheduling problem in IEEE 802.16d wireless mesh networks (WMNs). An efficient mini-slot scheduling needs to take into account the transmission o...