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GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
LOFT: A Latency-Oriented Fault Tolerant Transport Protocol for Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks
— Wireless sensor-actuator networks, or WSANs, refer to a group of sensors and actuators which collect data from the environment and perform application-specific actions in resp...
Edith C. H. Ngai, Yangfan Zhou, Michael R. Lyu, Ji...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Impact of Noise Imbalance on the Performance of Predetection Dual-EGC Receivers Over Rayleigh Fading Channels
Abstract—A new expression for the probability density function of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the output of a predetection dual-equal-gain-combining (dual-EGC) receiver ov...
Prabhat Patel, Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Volume Growth and General Rate Quantization on Grassmann Manifolds
—The Grassmann manifold Gn,p (L) is the set of all p-dimensional planes (through the origin) in the n-dimensional Euclidean space Ln , where L is either R or C. This paper consid...
Wei Dai, Brian Rider, Youjian Liu
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Optimal Strategy for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks
— Spectrum sensing is a key enabling functionality in cognitive radio (CR) networks, where the CRs act as secondary users that opportunistically access free frequency bands. Due ...
Zhi Quan, Shuguang Cui, Ali H. Sayed
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Enhanced RFID Multiple Access Protocol for Fast Inventory
- The relevant performance metric for successful deployment of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems for tag inventory applications is the latency for reading all tags with...
You-Chang Ko, Sumit Roy, Joshua R. Smith, Hyung-Wo...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Stochastic Channel Selection in Cognitive Radio Networks
— In this paper, we investigate the channel selection strategy for secondary users in cognitive radio networks. We claim that in order to avoid the costly channel switchings, a s...
Yang Song, Yuguang Fang, Yanchao Zhang
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Analysis of the Impact of the Number of Reporting Nodes on Sensor Networks Lifetime
— Energy-ef ciency is one of the major concerns in wireless sensor networks since it impacts the network lifetime. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between sensor n...
Fatma Bouabdallah, Nizar Bouabdallah, Raouf Boutab...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
The Impacts of Radio Channels and Node Mobility on Link Statistics in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract— Understanding link statistics in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is essential to design adaptive routing protocols and achieve desired network performance. While much a...
Ming Zhao 0001, Wenye Wang