—Conventional 802.11 medium access control (MAC) characteristics. In particular, all of these designs adopted a protocols have been designed separately from the characteristics s...
— Adaptive antennas are currently being integrated into wireless systems. As one of the first standards the wireless metropolitan area network IEEE 802.16 provides means to suppo...
Global vision consensus on the next generation of wireless mobile communications, broadly termed 4G, sketches a hybrid infrastructure, comprising different wireless access systems ...
Vangelis Gazis, Nancy Alonistioti, Lazaros F. Mera...
Rate adaptation is a fundamental primitive in wireless networks. Since wireless channel strength varies quickly and unpredictably, senders have to constantly measure the channel a...
Energy is the most crucial but scarce resource in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A wealth of MAC protocols are proposed only to prolong the network lifetime for energy-efficienc...