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ICC
2007
IEEE
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Performance Analysis of Polling based TDMA MAC Protocols with Sleep and Wakeup Cycles
— In sensor networks, MAC protocols based on Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) with wakeup and sleep periods have attracted considerable interest because of their low power co...
Haiming Yang, Biplab Sikdar
ICC
2007
IEEE
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Optimal Bandwidth Provision at WiMAX MAC Service Access Point on Uplink Direction
—In this paper, the IEEE 802.16 protocol is investigated with respect to the bandwidth provision problem arising at the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. The aim is to optimally...
Mario Marchese, Maurizio Mongelli
ICCCN
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
SpotMAC: A Pencil-Beam MAC for Wireless Mesh Networks
Abstract— Deafness is a key problem. It erodes the performance gains provided by directional antennas, and introduces a new hidden terminal problem. To address deafness, and henc...
Kwan-Wu Chin
WICON
2008
13 years 11 months ago
The effect of cooperation at the network protocol level
Abstract--There has been a great deal of attention on cooperative communication which exploits the spatial diversity among antennas belonging to multiple terminals. Most of the exi...
Beiyu Rong, Anthony Ephremides
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
MAC for Networks with Multipacket Reception Capability and Spatially Distributed Nodes
—The physical layer of future wireless networks will be based on novel radio technologies such as UWB and MIMO. One of the important capabilities of such technologies is the abil...
Guner D. Celik, Gil Zussman, Wajahat F. Khan, Eyta...