ICC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
—The paper analyzes the relationships among the transmission range, carrier sensing range, and interference range in case that power control is adopted and proposes an adaptive r...
ICC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
Recent studies on directional Media Access Control (MAC) protocols using smart antennas for wireless ad hoc networks have shown that directional MAC protocols outperform traditiona...
ICC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
—Sensor network MAC protocols usually employ periodic sleep and wakeup, achieving low duty-cycle to save energy and to increase the lifetime of battery-powered sensor devices. Ho...
VTC
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract— Unlike the terrestrial wireless networks that utilize the radio channel, underwater networks use the acoustic channel, which poses research challenges in the medium acc...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
—The inherent channel characteristics of impulse-based UWB networks affect the MAC layer performance significantly. Previous studies on evaluating MAC protocols are based on pro...
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
—Unlike terrestrial wireless communication which uses radio waves, underwater communication relies on acoustic waves. The long latency and limited bandwidth pose great challenges...
WOWMOM
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
—In this work, we present a practical plant-and-play wireless sensor network system for entry-exit monitoring. Our system is easily configurable and robust, making it feasible t...
MOBICOM
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
There has been burgeoning interest in wireless technologies that can use wider frequency spectrum. Technology advances, such as 802.11n and ultra-wideband (UWB), are pushing towar...
WWIC
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. To interconnect a wireless sensor network (WSN) to the Internet, we propose to use TCP/IP as the standard protocol for all network entities. We present a cross layer desi...
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
—We present a novel approach for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol design based on protocol engine. Current way of designing MAC protocols for a specific application is based...