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CORR
2012
Springer
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12 years 3 months ago
Token-DCF: An Opportunistic MAC protocol for Wireless Networks
—IEEE 802.11 DCF is the MAC protocol currently used in wireless LANs. 802.11 DCF is inefficient due to two types of overhead; channel idle time and collision time. This paper pr...
Ghazale Hosseinabadi, Nitin H. Vaidya
ICWN
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Distributed Energy Aware MAC Layer Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Due to the fact that sensor nodes are untethered and unattended, energy management is a critical issue in communication mechanism of a wireless sensor network. In this paper, we a...
Ramaraju Kalidindi, Rajgopal Kannan, S. Sitharama ...
ISCC
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Wireless Token Ring Protocol-Performance Comparison with IEEE 802.11
The paper presents the performance advantage of Wireless Token Ring Protocol (WTRP) versus IEEE 802.11 in DCF mode. WTRP is a medium access control (MAC) protocol and is designed ...
Mustafa Ergen, Duke Lee, Raja Sengupta, Pravin Var...
TWC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
On the Performance of Distributed Polling Service-based Medium Access Control
It has been shown in the literature that many MAC protocols for wireless networks have a considerable control overhead, which limits their achievable throughput and delay performan...
Yihan Li, Shiwen Mao, Shivendra S. Panwar, Scott F...
WICOMM
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Multi-channel power-controlled directional MAC for wireless mesh networks
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have emerged recently as a technology for providing high-speed last mile connectivity in next-generation wireless networks. Several MAC protocols tha...
Fabio Martignon