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GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A MAC Protocol with Directional Antennas for Deafness Avoidance in Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract—Directional antennas are expected to provide significant improvements over omni-directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks. Directional MAC protocols, however, int...
Masanori Takata, Masaki Bandai, Takashi Watanabe
MOBIHOC
2002
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Characterizing the interaction between routing and MAC protocols in ad-hoc networks
We empirically study the effect of mobility and interaction between various input parameters on the performance of protocols designed for wireless ad-hoc networks. An important ob...
Christopher L. Barrett, Achla Marathe, Madhav V. M...
ICCCN
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On Improving the Reliability of Packet Delivery in Dense Wireless Sensor Networks
—Wireless sensor networks (WSN) built using current Berkeley Mica motes exhibit low reliability for packet delivery. There is anecdotal evidence of poor packet delivery rates fro...
JunSuk Shin, Umakishore Ramachandran, Mostafa H. A...
ISCC
2006
IEEE
112views Communications» more  ISCC 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
The Precision and Energetic Cost of Snapshot Estimates in Wireless Sensor Networks
— Even for a specific application, the design space of wireless sensor networks is enormous, and traditional disciplinary boundaries are disappearing in the search for efficien...
Paul G. Flikkema
TMC
2010
190views more  TMC 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
SAMAC: A Cross-Layer Communication Protocol for Sensor Networks with Sectored Antennas
—Wireless sensor networks have been used to gather data and information in many diverse application settings. The capacity of such networks remains a fundamental obstacle toward ...
Emad Felemban, Serdar Vural, Robert Murawski, Eyle...