—Network protocols have traditionally been designed using a layered method in part because it is easier to implement some portions of network protocols in software and other port...
Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas C. ...
In a Collegiate setting, technology must be functional, effective, and highly visible. In the fall of 1999 the CIS department at Bowdoin College saw the need for a greater number ...
— In this paper, we develop contention-based medium access control (MAC) schemes for both best-effort data transmissions and delay-sensitive multimedia transmissions over WLANs. ...
Fanglei Sun, Victor O. K. Li, Zhifeng Diao, Zhengy...
— In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), the hidden and the exposed terminal problems affect the throughput of the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols. Several MAC schemes have be...
— As evidenced by measurement data, channel fading and co-channel interference occur on the same time scales, and it is therefore difficult to determine if packet losses are due...