With the evolving availability of wireless communication servicesand of affordable mobile devices such as notebooks or Personal Digital Assistants, mobile computing is becoming wid...
IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...
: Efficient information sharing is very important for emergency and rescue operations. These operations often have to be performed in environments where no communication infrastruc...
—This paper provides analytical expressions to evaluate the performance of a random access wireless network in terms of user throughput and network throughput, subject to the con...
In recent years, integrated spatialized voice services have become an appealing application for networked virtual environments (NVE), e.g., Second Life. With a spatialized voice s...