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RTSS
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Contention-Free Periodic Message Scheduler Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor / Actuator Networks
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...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Packing Approach to Compare Slotted and Non-Slotted Medium Access Control
— 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...
Mathilde Durvy, Patrick Thiran
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Multi-Carrier Burst Contention (MCBC): Scalable Medium Access Control for Wireless Networks
—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...
JSAC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Cross-Layer Based Opportunistic MAC Protocols for QoS Provisionings Over Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks
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...
Hang Su, Xi Zhang
INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting Multiuser Diversity for Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks
— 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...
Xiangping Qin, Randall A. Berry