—Mission-driven sensor networks usually have special lifetime requirements. However, the density of the sensors may not be large enough to satisfy the coverage requirement while ...
Abstract—Electric power transmission systems are a key infrastructure, and blackouts of these systems have major consequences for the economy and national security. Analyses of b...
David E. Newman, Benjamin A. Carreras, Vickie E. L...
—In this paper, the performance of the ALOHA and CSMA MAC protocols are analyzed in spatially distributed wireless networks. The main system objective is correct reception of pac...
Multi-hop communication objectives and constraints impose a set of challenging requirements that create difficult conditions for simultaneous optimization of features such as scala...
Milenko Drinic, Darko Kirovski, Lin Yuan, Gang Qu,...
IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) employs the distributed coordination function (DCF) as the fundamental medium access function. DCF operates with binary exponential backoff...