GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— This paper investigates distributed medium access control (MAC) to achieve rate guarantee in pulse-based timehopping ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless networks, where the inherent ...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Abstract— Existing random mobility models have their limitations such as speed decay and sharp turn which have been demonstrated by the previous studies. More importantly, mobili...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— In wireless ad hoc networks (WANETs), e.g. wireless sensor networks, battery-powered devices are constrained by limited amount of energy. Many WANET applications require that t...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
- Recently, several MAC protocols using directional antennas, typically referred to as directional MAC protocols, have been proposed for wireless ad hoc networks. However, the MAC ...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— This paper proposes a distributed optimization framework for wireless multihop sensor networks base on a game theoretic approach. We show that the cross-layer optimization prob...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— In this work, we study the topology enhancement problem of wireless sensor networks. Our research focuses on reducing the path-based vulnerability. The objective is to get as m...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Abstract— Natural or man-made disasters can partition networks while threatening human lives. Because conventional Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) cannot route messages across pa...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
In most of the proposed clustering algorithms for wireless ad hoc networks, the cluster-heads form a dominating set in the network topology. A variant of dominating set which is mo...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— The path loss exponent (PLE) is a parameter indicating the rate at which the received signal strength (RSS) decreases with distance, and its value depends on the specific prop...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— Key predistribution is a popular technique for key distribution in sensor networks. The schemes available in current literature using this approach are for nodes with no or lim...