Arbitrary Inter-frame Space (AIFS), Contention Window (CW) and Transmission Opportunity (TXOP) are three important Quality-of-Service (QoS) differentiation schemes specified in the...
Jia Hu, Geyong Min, Michael E. Woodward, Weijia Ji...
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are envisaged to extend Internet access and other networking services in personal, local, campus, and metropolitan areas. Mesh routers (MR) form the c...
—IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) uses a binary exponential backoff algorithm to arbitrate simultaneous channel access by multiple stations. When a station sen...
Abstract-We present a novel framework for the provision of deterministic end-to-end bandwidth guarantees in wireless ad hoc networks. Guided by a set of local feasibility condition...
Most of the existing medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless local area networks (WLANs) provide prioritized access by adjusting the contention window sizes or interfram...