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COMCOM
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Power control and fairness MAC mechanisms for 802.11 WLANs
Exploiting spatial reuse opportunities will allow more parallel transmissions and improve the throughput of wireless networks. Power control is one of the major mechanisms used to...
Chih-Yung Chang, Hsu-Ruey Chang
EWSN
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Making Sensornet MAC Protocols Robust against Interference
Radio interference may lead to packet losses, thus negatively affecting the performance of sensornet applications. In this paper, we experimentally assess the impact of external i...
Carlo Alberto Boano, Thiemo Voigt, Nicolas Tsiftes...
WOWMOM
2006
ACM
111views Multimedia» more  WOWMOM 2006»
14 years 20 days ago
A New MAC Scheme for Very High-Speed WLANs
We consider the medium access control (MAC) layer for very high-speed Wireless LANs, which is designed to support rich multimedia applications such as highdefinition television. ...
Tianji Li, Qiang Ni, David Malone, Douglas J. Leit...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
Modelling the Impact of User Mobility on the Throughput in Networks of Wireless 802.11 LANs
— The wireless LAN technology 802.11, also called Wi-Fi, offers high speed wireless Internet access for local area environments. WLANs provide much higher data rates than the mob...
Sandjai Bhulai, Robert D. van der Mei, Taoying Yua...
JSAC
2008
125views more  JSAC 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
RIPT: A Receiver-Initiated Reservation-Based Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks
Although there are many MAC protocols that have been proposed for terrestrial wireless networks with a wide variety of aspects, these protocols cannot be applied directly in underw...
Nitthita Chirdchoo, Wee-Seng Soh, Kee Chaing Chua