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GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A MAC Protocol with Directional Antennas for Deafness Avoidance in Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract—Directional antennas are expected to provide significant improvements over omni-directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks. Directional MAC protocols, however, int...
Masanori Takata, Masaki Bandai, Takashi Watanabe
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Power-Modulated Challenge-Response Schemes for Verifying Location Claims
—Location information should be verifiable in order to support new computing and information services. In this paper, we adapt the classical challenge-response method for authen...
Yu Zhang, Zang Li, Wade Trappe
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Uncertainty Mitigation for Utility-Oriented Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
— Link and node reliability are important metrics in wireless ad hoc networks. Therefore, evaluating and quantifying reliability has become the cornerstone of research in this ...
Feng Li, Avinash Srinivasan, Mingming Lu, Jie Wu
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Content-Aware Cooperative Multiple Access Protocol for Packet Speech Communications
— A novel cooperative multiple access protocol for packet speech communications is proposed. Cooperation is achieved through a relay node and by exploiting the silence periods du...
Amr El-Sherif, Andres Kwasinski, Ahmed K. Sadek, K...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
End-to-End Throughput-Aware Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
— 1 Wireless mesh networks are deployed as broadband backbones to provide ubiquitous wireless access for residents and local businesses. Utilizing multiple channels has the poten...
Fei Ye, Qing Chen, Zhisheng Niu
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Evaluation of the Probability of K-Hop Connection in Homogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
— Given a wireless sensor network (WSN) whose sensors are randomly and independently distributed in a bounded area following a homogeneous Poisson process with density ρ and eac...
Xiaoyuan Ta, Guoqiang Mao, Brian D. O. Anderson
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Graph Theoretical Analysis of Opportunistic Scheduling Policy for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
— 1 Taking advantage of the independent fading channel conditions among multiple wireless users, opportunistic transmissions schedule the user with the instantaneously best condi...
Qing Chen, Fei Ye, Zhisheng Niu
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Mobility-Aided Routing in Multi-Hop Heterogeneous Networks with Group Mobility
— This paper investigates routing strategies for mobile and heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks. We leverage the knowledge about users mobility to improve the efficiency o...
Leonardo Badia, Nicola Bui, Marco Miozzo, Michele ...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Performance Analysis of V-BLAST with Optimum Power Allocation
—Comprehensive performance analysis of the unordered V-BLAST algorithm with various power allocation strategies is presented, which makes use of analytical tools and resorts to M...
Victoria Kostina, Sergey Loyka
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Collision Avoidance Mechanism for IEEE 802.11e EDCA Protocol to Improve Voice Transmissions in Wireless Local Area Networks
—Enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) is the basis protocol in IEEE 802.11e protocol suite. It is used for providing differentiated quality of service (QoS) in IEEE 802.11e...
Khalim Amjad Meerja, Abdallah Shami