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WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
META: A Mobility Model of MEtropolitan TAxis Extracted from GPS Traces
In this paper, we present our study of extracting a mobility model for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) from a large amount of real taxi GPS trace data. In order to capture char...
Hongyu Huang, Yanmin Zhu, Xu Li, Minglu Li, Min-Yo...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Scalable Mismatch Compensation for Time-Interleaved A/D Converters in OFDM Reception
Abstract—Realization of all-digital baseband receiver processing for multi-Gigabit communication requires analog-to-digital converters(ADCs) of sufficient rate and output resolu...
Sandeep Ponnuru, Upamanyu Madhow
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Modelling Angle Spread Autocorrelations and the Impact on Multi-User Diversity Gains
—One way of modelling the wireless channel is in a statistical manner, based on a few parameters describing the characteristics of the environment. In most current wireless chann...
Niklas Jalden, Per Zetterberg, Björn E. Otter...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Prioritized Resource Sharing in WiMax and WiFi Integrated Networks
Abstract—In order to ensure fair access and efficiency of bandwidth usage in wireless integrated networks, resource allocation algorithms should be well designed. In this paper,...
Nirmal Andrews, Yogesh Reddy Kondareddy, Prathima ...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
ROPA: A MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks with Reverse Opportunistic Packet Appending
—In most existing sender-initiated handshaking based underwater Media Access Control (MAC) protocols, only the initiating sender is allowed to transmit data packets to its intend...
Hai-Heng Ng, Wee-Seng Soh, Mehul Motani
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Throughput Analysis for Cooperation in Random Access Networks
—This paper aims at answering the questions of how to enable cooperative communications in random access networks. And, since cooperation introduces extra transmissions in the ch...
Amr El-Sherif, K. J. Ray Liu
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Modeling IEEE 802.11 DCF System Dynamics
—Experiments show that IEEE 802.11 DCF system exhibits unstable behavior in the congestion onset load range where the system starts to become saturated. This phenomenon is not we...
Zhenzhen Cao, Ren Ping Liu, Xun Yang, Yang Xiao
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Lightweight Distributed Solution to Content Replication in Mobile Networks
Abstract—Performance and reliability of content access in mobile networks is conditioned jointly by the number and location of content replicas deployed at the network nodes. The...
C.-A. La, Pietro Michiardi, Claudio Casetti, Carla...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Performance of a Cooperative Network Using Rate Adaptation and Cooperative Combining
—The performance of a cooperative network with Cooperative Maximal Ratio Combining (C-MRC) is analyzed. To this end, we propose a heuristic approximation to the total received SN...
Prasanna Kalansuriya, Madushanka Soysa, Chintha Te...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A MAC Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks with Bursty Traffic
L. Bernardo, H. Agua, M. Pereira, R. Oliveira, R. ...