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TON
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Cooperative Adaptive Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks
The cognitive radio (CR) paradigm calls for open spectrum access according to a predetermined etiquette. Under this paradigm, CR nodes access the spectrum opportunistically by cont...
Haythem Bany Salameh, Marwan Krunz, Ossama Younis
IWCMC
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Cross-layer performance analysis of joint rate and power adaptation schemes with multiple-user contention in Nakagami fading cha
Adaptively adjusting transmission rate and power to concurrently enhance goodput and save energy is an important issue in the wireless local area network (WLAN). However, goodput ...
Li-Chun Wang, Kuang-Nan Yen, Jane-Hwa Huang, Ander...
COMCOM
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Guaranteeing the network lifetime in wireless sensor networks: A MAC layer approach
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...
Yongsub Nam, Taekyoung Kwon, Hojin Lee, Hakyung Ju...
TMC
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Radio Sleep Mode Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks
—Energy-efficiency is a central challenge in sensor networks, and the radio is a major contributor to overall energy node consumption. Current energy-efficient MAC protocols fo...
Raja Jurdak, Antonio G. Ruzzelli, Gregory M. P. O'...
VTC
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Data Fragmentation Scheme in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks
— The IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is designed for low data rate, short distance and low power communication applications such as Wireless Sensor Networks (...
Jongwon Yoon, Hyogon Kim, Jeong-Gil Ko