Abstract— The IEEE 802.11e standard has recently been ratified. This standard provides Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees in the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer of 802.11 Wir...
— This paper analyzes and designs medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks through the network utility maximization (NUM) framework. We first reverse-e...
A Distributed Medium Access Control (D-MAC) protocol has been proposed to support high-rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (HR-WPANs) by the WiMedia Alliance. The WiMedia D-MAC s...
Jin-Woo Kim, Kyeong Hur, Kwang-il Hwang, Doo Seop ...
A new generation of ultra wideband (UWB) communication transceivers are becoming available which support both positioning and communication tasks. Transceiver manufacturers envisio...
Abstract— The inherent spread spectrum nature in ultrawideband (UWB) communications can support simultaneous transmissions. Two nearby transmissions do not collide, but rather ge...