We show how the database community’s notion of a generic query interface for data aggregation can be applied to ad-hoc networks of sensor devices. As has been noted in the senso...
Samuel Madden, Robert Szewczyk, Michael J. Frankli...
- It is well known that TCP has performance problems when wireless links are involved in the end-to-end connection. This is due to the high bit error rate characterizing wireless l...
Wireless networks that operate on batteries are imposed with energy constraints and long distance communications between nodes are not desirable. Implementing Relay Nodes (RNs) can...
Wenxuan Guo, Xin-Ming Huang, Wenjing Lou, Cao Lian...
—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...
— Multiuser diversity is a phenomenon caused by channel variations among different users in a wireless network. Cooperative relaying provides another form of diversity due to the...