— Many distributed multiple access (MAC) protocols use an exponential backoff mechanism. In that mechanism, a node picks a random backoff time uniformly in an interval that doubl...
: Virtual backbone-based routing is a promising approach for enhancing the routing efficiency in MANETs. To establish communication in the network, the virtual backbone nodes have ...
Wassim El-Hajj, Dionysios Kountanis, Ala I. Al-Fuq...
Abstract. One of the most challenging applications of wireless networking are in disaster area networks where lack of infrastructure, limited energy resources, need for common oper...
Jordi Cucurull, Mikael Asplund, Simin Nadjm-Tehran...
Traffic congestion is a very serious problem in large cities. With the number of vehicles increasing rapidly, especially in cities whose economy is booming, the situation is gettin...
This paper presents an analytical model to compute the average service time and jitter experienced by a packet when transmitted in a saturated IEEE 802.11 ad hoc network. In contr...