— In multiuser systems, multiuser diversity gains can be achieved by assigning channels to users with higher channel quality. To avoid the extensive information exchange required...
—A new and simple MAC protocol is proposed. Each node transmits a burst with length sampled from a geometric distribution with parameter q followed by a carrier sense slot. A nod...
Greger Wikstrand, Thomas Nilsson, Mark S. Doughert...
In this paper we explore the packet starvation effect (PSE) that occurs in Ethernet controllers due to the unfairness of the CSMA/CD algorithm. The PSE causes some packets to expe...
Brian Whetten, Stephen Steinberg, Domenico Ferrari
We propose using least attained service (LAS) scheduling in network routers to prevent some connections against utilizing all or a large fraction of network bandwidth. This phenome...
Idris A. Rai, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Ernst W. Bie...
— This paper studies the tradeoff between energy consumption and application performance in wireless sensor networks by investigating the interaction between network lifetime max...