With an increasingly mobile society and the worldwide deployment of mobile and wireless networks, the wireless infrastructure can support many current and emerging healthcare appli...
The goal of this paper is to explore the benefits of channel diversity in wireless ad hoc networks. Our model is that of a Poisson point process of transmitters, each with a recei...
Kostas Stamatiou, John G. Proakis, James R. Zeidle...
— In wireless networks, the use of collaboration has been shown to provide an increase in reliability due to an increase in diversity. Specifically it has been shown that by havi...
Patrick Tooher, Hesam Khoshneviss, M. Reza Soleyma...
—The presence of heterogeneous nodes (i.e., nodes with an enhanced energy capacity or communication capability) in a sensor network is known to increase network reliability and l...
Mark D. Yarvis, Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Harkirat...
In this paper, we characterize the joint network capacity region for a licensed broadcast (primary) and ad hoc cognitive (secondary) network in a heterogeneous environment, includ...