This paper discusses the ideal shapes of control frames (i.e., RTS/CTS frames) in the IEEE 802.11 MAC layer for efficient power control and directional beam forming in mobile ad h...
A number of wireless sensor network (WSN) applications demand timely data delivery. However, existing WSNs are designed to conserve energy and not to support timely data transmissi...
— The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the most widely used transport protocol over the Internet, has been advertised to implement fairness between flows competing for the s...
Gustavo Marfia, Claudio E. Palazzi, Giovanni Pau, ...
Cognitive radios permit dynamic control of physical layer resources such as transmission power and constellation size; these degrees of freedom can be employed to achieve significa...
Alex Fridman, Steven Weber, Kapil R. Dandekar, Mos...
The paper presents a detailed discussion of various issues involved in designing a medium access control (MAC) protocol for multihop wireless networks with nodes employing multiple...