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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Millimeter Wave WPAN: Cross-Layer Modeling and Multi-Hop Architecture
— The 7 GHz of unlicensed spectrum in the 60 GHz band offers the potential for multiGigabit indoor wireless personal area networking (WPAN). With recent advances in the speed of ...
Sumit Singh, Federico Ziliotto, Upamanyu Madhow, E...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A MAC Protocol with Directional Antennas for Deafness Avoidance in Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract—Directional antennas are expected to provide significant improvements over omni-directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks. Directional MAC protocols, however, int...
Masanori Takata, Masaki Bandai, Takashi Watanabe
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Protocol-Independent Approach for Analyzing the Optimal Operation Point of CSMA/CA Protocols
Abstract—This paper presents a protocol-independent approach to reveal a new insight into the performance of carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) prot...
Yu Cheng, Xinhua Ling, Weihua Zhuang
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
On Energy-Efficient and Low-Latency Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— In wireless sensor networks, one of the big challenges is to achieve a satisfactory network lifetime while meeting quality of service (QoS) requirements. In this paper,...
Zhiwen Wan, Jinsong Zhang, Hao Zhu, Kia Makki, Nik...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Bandwidth Balancing in Multi-Channel IEEE 802.16 Wireless Mesh Networks
Abstract— In wireless mesh networks, the end-to-end throughput of traffic flows depends on the path length, i.e. the higher the number of hops, the lower becomes the throughput...
Claudio Cicconetti, Ian F. Akyildiz, Luciano Lenzi...