We consider wireless LANs such as IEEE 802.11 operating in the unlicensed radio spectrum. While their nominal bit rates have increased considerably, the MAC layer remains practica...
Martin Heusse, Franck Rousseau, Romaric Guillier, ...
In this paper, we present a family of adaptive protocols, called SPIN (Sensor Protocols for Information via Negotiation), that efficiently disseminate information among sensors in ...
Joanna Kulik, Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman, Hari Balak...
Abstract— A cross-layer optimization combining retransmission diversity with multi-user diversity is investigated for wireless communications. To this end, a joint design of adap...
Xin Wang, Di Wang, Irena Li, Hanqi Zhuang, Salvato...
In a wireless sensor network of N nodes transmitting data to a single base station, possibly over multiple hops, what distributed mechanisms should be implemented in order to dyna...
Abstract--The batch resolution problem consists in arbitrating the channel access of a group of nodes in a wireless network in order to collect a single packet from each node in th...