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GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
MACA-U: A Media Access Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks
—Unlike terrestrial wireless communication which uses radio waves, underwater communication relies on acoustic waves. The long latency and limited bandwidth pose great challenges...
Hai-Heng Ng, Wee-Seng Soh, Mehul Motani
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Cross-Layer Solution for Ultrawideband Based Wireless Video Sensor Networks
Abstract—A cross-layer communication protocol called VSNModule is introduced for Wireless Video Sensor Networks based on UltraWideBand (UWB) radio technology at the physical laye...
Luca Campelli, Ian F. Akyildiz, Luigi Fratta, Matt...
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Mobility Prediction-Based Adaptive Data Gathering Protocol for Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Network
— The basic operation of Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Network (DTMSN) is for pervasive data gathering in networks with intermittent connectivity, where traditional data gathering...
Jinqi Zhu, Jiannong Cao, Ming Liu, Yuan Zheng, Hai...
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multi-Cluster Multi-Parent Wake-Up Scheduling in Delay-Sensitive Wireless Sensor Networks
—Immediate notification of urgent but rare events and delivery of time sensitive actuation commands appear in many practical wireless sensor and actuator network applications. M...
Huang Lee, Abtin Keshavarzian, Hamid K. Aghajan
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Multicast Tree Construction for Elastic Data Streams
— In this paper, we revisit the problem of multicast tree construction in overlay peer-to-peer networks. We present an iterative online multicast tree construction algorithm for ...
Ying Zhu, Ken Q. Pu
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On the Statistics and MAC Implications of Channel Estimation Errors in MIMO Ad Hoc Networks
—In this paper, we propose an analytical technique to evaluate the statistics of the channel estimation error in a simple multi-user ad hoc networking scenario. This problem is v...
Davide Chiarotto, Paolo Casari, Michele Zorzi
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
ARQ with Implicit and Explicit ACKs in Wireless Sensor Networks
—A common application of unattended sensor networks (WSN) is low data rate streaming from many scattered sensors to one or more sink nodes. To meet the stringent requirement of p...
Zvi Rosberg, Ren Ping Liu, Alex Y. Dong, Tuan D. L...
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Investigating the Performance Impact of Shared Host Capacity in Ad Hoc Networks
— Host resources (e.g., CPU time and buffer space) in mobile ad hoc networks must be shared between the devices own applications and networking functions, such as routing and pac...
Yan He, Ikhlas Ajbar, Van Nguyen, Dmitri Perkins
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On Spectrum Sharing in Cooperative Multiple Access Networks
Abstract— The coexistence and resource sharing between a primary network utilizing cognitive relays and a secondary network are investigated. Two multiple access protocols are pr...
Amr El-Sherif, Ahmed K. Sadek, K. J. Ray Liu
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multi-Hop Effective Bandwidth Based Routing in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
—In this paper, we address the routing issue in a wireless mesh network, where each node is stationary and equipped with one or more radios. Specifically, we propose a new path ...
Hongkun Li, Yu Cheng, Chi Zhou