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JSAC
2008
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HC-MAC: A Hardware-Constrained Cognitive MAC for Efficient Spectrum Management
Abstract--Radio spectrum resource is of fundamental importance for wireless communication. Recent reports show that most available spectrum has been allocated. While some of the sp...
Juncheng Jia, Qian Zhang, Xuemin Shen
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Protocol Design and Optimization for Delay/Fault-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks
While extensive studies have been carried out in the past several years for many sensor applications, they cannot be applied to the network with extremely low and intermittent con...
Yu Wang, Hongyi Wu, Feng Lin, Nian-Feng Tzeng
JSAC
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Multiuser diversity with capture for wireless networks: protocol and performance analysis
Abstract--In a wireless network, with the aid of rate adaptation, multiuser diversity can be exploited by allowing the mobile user with the best channel to use the channel. However...
Justin Foo, Defeng Huang
WICON
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A study of MAC schemes for wireless sensor networks powered by ambient energy harvesting
Energy consumption is a perennial issue in the design of wireless sensor networks which typically rely on portable sources like batteries for power. Recent advances in ambient ene...
Zhi Ang Eu, Winston Khoon Guan Seah, Hwee Pink Tan
MOBIHOC
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Inducing spatial clustering in MAC contention for spread spectrum ad hoc networks
This paper proposes a new principle for designing MAC protocols for spread spectrum based ad hoc networks ? inducing spatial clustering in contending transmitters/receivers. We fi...
Xiangying Yang, Gustavo de Veciana