As ICT services are becoming more ubiquitous and mobile and access technologies grow to be more heterogeneous and complex, we are witnessing the increasing importance of two relat...
Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Dario Di Sorte, Mauro Femm...
Abstract. The RTS/CTS access scheme, designed to reduce the number of collisions in a IEEE 802.11 network, is known to exhibit problems due to masked nodes, the imbalance between t...
Mohammad Z. Ahmad, Damla Turgut, R. Bhakthavathsal...
A cross-layered slotted ALOHA protocol is proposed and analyzed for distributed estimation in sensor networks. Suppose that the sensors in the network record local measurements of ...
— Multiuser diversity refers to a type of diversity present across different users in a fading environment. This diversity can be exploited by scheduling transmissions so that us...
—We investigate an architecture for multi-Gigabit outdoor mesh networks operating in the unlicensed 60 GHz “millimeter (mm) wave” band. In this band, the use of narrow beams ...