— 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...
— To explore the benefit of advertising instant and location-aware commercials that can not be effectively promoted by traditional medium like TV program and Internet, we propos...
Zaiben Chen, Heng Tao Shen, Quanqing Xu, Xiaofang ...
—We propose a mechanism that incorporates network coding into TCP with only minor changes to the protocol stack, thereby allowing incremental deployment. In our scheme, the sourc...
Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Devavrat Shah, Muriel M&ea...
— Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are seen as an essential technology to support future Pervasive Computing Scenarios and 4G networks. In a MANET, efficient support of multipoint...
Under a multirate network scenario, the IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC fails to provide airtime fairness for all competing stations since the protocol is designed for ensuring max-min through...