Due to its fixed assignment nature, the well-known time division multiple access (TDMA) protocol suffers from poor performance when the offered traffic is bursty. In this paper, an...
Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Mohammad S. Obaidat, An...
—In 802.11-based wireless networks the stations (STAs) are associated with the available access points (APs) and communicate through them. In traditional handoff schemes the STAs...
George Athanasiou, Thanasis Korakis, Leandros Tass...
— The forthcoming 4G cellular systems will provide broadband wireless access to a variety of advanced data and voice services. In order to do that, these networks will have a sig...
— We consider applications of sensor networks wherein data packets generated by every node have to reach the base station. This results in a many-to-one communication paradigm re...
Abstract—In this paper, we review the most important performance characteristics of the 802.11 DCF wireless networks, point out some false common knowledge, and report on recent ...