This paper presents a time division multiple access medium access control protocol for wireless sensor / actuator networks implemented with a contention-free message scheduler. A ...
Thomas W. Carley, Moussa A. Ba, Rajeev Barua, Davi...
— In multi-hop ad hoc networks, the efficiency of a medium access control protocol under heavy traffic load depends mainly on its ability to schedule a large number of simultan...
—With the rapid growth of WLAN capability for mobile devices such as laptops, handhelds, mobile phones and vehicles, we will witness WLANs with very large numbers of active nodes...
Bogdan Roman, Frank Stajano, Ian J. Wassell, David...
We propose the cross-layer based opportunistic multi-channel medium access control (MAC) protocols, which integrate the spectrum sensing at physical (PHY) layer with the packet sch...
— Multiuser diversity refers to a type of diversity present across different users in a fading environment. This diversity can be exploited by scheduling transmissions so that us...