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WICOMM
2011
13 years 2 months ago
The effects of shadow-fading on QoS-aware routing and admission control protocols designed for multi-hop MANETs
—Providing quality-of-service (QoS) assurances in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is difficult due to node mobility, contention for channel access, a lack of centralised coordin...
Lajos Hanzo, Rahim Tafazolli
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Robust Cooperative Relaying in a Wireless LAN: Cross-Layer Design and Performance Analysis
—A key technology in cooperative communications is distributed space-time coding (DSTC) which achieves spatial diversity gain from multiple relays. A novel DSTC, called randomize...
Pei Liu, Chun Nie, Elza Erkip, Shivendra S. Panwar
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Novel MAC Protocol for Cooperative Downloading in Vehicular Networks
—In this paper, we propose a novel protocol called VC-MAC that utilizes the concept of cooperative communication tailored for vehicular networks, especially for gateway downloadi...
Jin Zhang, Qian Zhang, Weijia Jia
IPSN
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Wireless localization using self-organizing maps
Localization is an essential service for many wireless sensor network applications. While several localization schemes rely on anchor nodes and range measurements to achieve fine...
Gianni Giorgetti, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Gianfranco ...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the Distribution of Positioning Errors in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Simulative Comparison of Optimization Algorithms
Abstract—Recent advances in the technology of wireless electronic devices have made possible to build ad–hoc Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) using inexpensive nodes consisting ...
Stefano Tennina, Marco Di Renzo, Fortunato Santucc...