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WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Statistical Analysis of the IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY over Multipath Channels
Abstract— This paper shows the application of a recently proposed statistical characterization of the ultra-wideband (UWB) radio channel to the standardized IEEE 802.15.4a UWB ph...
Klaus Witrisal
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Training Structure Design Optimization for Continuous Time-Varying Fading Channels
— In fast-varying faded channels the transmission can be organized into frames where the channel estimation is mainly training-based. For fast-varying fading channels the trainin...
Stefano Savazzi, Umberto Spagnolini
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Architectures for Seamless Handover Support in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
—In this paper we study the performance of the Ambient Networks (AN) access selection architecture. We consider heterogeneous wireless networks, where mobile terminals (MTs) own ...
Marco Miozzo, Michele Rossi, Michele Zorzi
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 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...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Optimal Strategies for Cooperative MAC-Layer Retransmission in Wireless Networks
—The concept of cooperative retransmission in wireless networks has attracted considerable research attention. The basic idea is that when a receiver cannot decode a frame, the r...
Lixiang Xiong, Lavy Libman, Guoqiang Mao
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Optimal Admission Control Policy for CDMA Multiple Antenna Systems with QoS Constraints
Abstract— An optimal admission control (AC) policy is proposed for a CDMA multiple antenna system, which can maximize the system throughput while simultaneously guaranteeing all ...
Wei Sheng, Steven D. Blostein
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Secure Routing Protocol in Proactive Security Approach for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
—Secure routing of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) is still a hard problem after years of research. We therefore propose to design a secure routing protocol in a new approach. Th...
Shushan Zhao, Akshai K. Aggarwal, Shuping Liu, Hua...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Relay-Assisted ARQ in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
— In this paper we study a simple protocol utilizing two-hop cooperative diversity augmented with “automatic repeat request” (ARQ) for multi-hop ad-hoc networks. This protoco...
Furuzan Atay Onat, Dan Avidor
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Decoding on Graphs: LDPC-Coded MISO Systems and Belief Propagation
— This paper proposes a new approach for decoding LDPC codes over MISO channels. Since in an nT × 1 MISO system with a modulation of alphabet size 2M, nT transmitted symbols are...
Amir H. Djahanshahi, Paul H. Siegel, Laurence B. M...
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Cooperative Communications Using Scalable, Medium Block-length LDPC Codes
Abstract— Cooperative communications has received increasing attention in recent years because of the ubiquity of wireless devices. Each year more mobile computing devices enter ...
Marjan Karkooti, Joseph R. Cavallaro