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The rapid development of medical sensors has increased the interest in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications where physiological data from the human body and its environment is gathered, monitored, and analyzed to take the proper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Nadine Boudargham , Jacques Bou Abdo , Jacques Demerjian , Christophe Guyeux , Abdallah Makhoul

We consider a rare event monitoring system consisting of a set of devices and a base station, where devices transmit information about rare events to the base station using a random multiple access scheme. We introduce a model in which the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Sergey Foss , Dmitriy Kim , Andrey Turlikov

One of the main issues in the design of sensor networks is energy efficient communication of time-critical data. Energy wastage can be caused by failed packet transmission attempts at each node due to channel dynamics and interference.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-24 Rahul Srivastava , Can Emre Koksal

This study considers a wireless network where an access point (AP) broadcasts timely updates to numerous mobile users. The timeliness of information owned by a user is characterized by the age of information. Frequently broadcasting the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Yu-Pin Hsu

As chiplet-based integration and many-core architectures become the norm in high-performance computing, on-chip wireless communication has emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional interconnects. However, scalable Medium Access…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ama Bandara , Abhijit Das , Fatima Rodriguez-Galan , Eduard Alarcon , Sergi Abadal

This paper investigates the problem of distributed medium access control in a wireless multiple access network with an unknown finite number of homogeneous transmitters. An enhanced physical link layer interface is considered where each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Faeze Heydaryan , Yanru Tang , Jie Luo

As mission- and safety-critical wireless applications grow in complexity and diversity, next-generation wireless systems must meet increasingly stringent and multifaceted requirements. These systems demand resilience along with enhanced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yasemin Karacora , Christina Chaccour , Aydin Sezgin , Walid Saad

In Machine to Machine (M2M) networks, a robust Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is crucial to enable numerous machine-type devices to concurrently access the channel. Most literatures focus on developing simplex (reservation or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yi Liu , Chau Yuen , Jiming Chen , Xianghui Cao

Wireless communications for status update are becoming increasingly important, especially for machine-type control applications. Existing work has been mainly focused on Age of Information (AoI) optimizations. In this paper, a status-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Zhiyuan Jiang , Zixu Cao , Siyu Fu , Fei Peng , Shan Cao , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu

Two-way relaying can significantly improve performance of next generation wireless networks. However, due to its dependence on multi-node cooperation and transmission coordination, applying this technique to a wireless network in an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-27 Wenguang Mao , Xudong Wang

In recent years there is a growing effort to provide learning algorithms for spectrum collaboration. In this paper we present a medium access control protocol which allows spectrum collaboration with minimal regret and high spectral…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Tomer Boyarski , Wenbo Wang , Amir Leshem

Due to the fact that Quality of Service (QoS) requirements are not as stringent for non-real-time traffic types, as opposed to real-time traffic, more calls can be accommodated by releasing some bandwidth from the existing non-real-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Yeong Min Jang , andZygmunt J. Haas

Scalable quantum computing requires modular multi-chip architectures integrating multiple quantum cores interconnected through quantum-coherent and classical links. The classical communication subsystem is critical for coordinating…

Time-critical control applications typically pose stringent connectivity requirements for communication networks. The imperfections associated with the wireless medium such as packet losses, synchronization errors, and varying delays have a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Adnan Aijaz , Nan Jiang , Aftab Khan

This paper describes a detailed performance evaluation of distributed Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks based on Impulse Radio Ultra Wideband (IR-UWB) Physical layer (PHY). Two main classes of Medium Access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Abdoulaye Berthe , Aubin Lecointre , Daniela Dragomirescu , Robert Plana

With wireless devices increasingly forming a unified smart network for seamless, user-friendly operations, random access (RA) medium access control (MAC) design is considered a key solution for handling unpredictable data traffic from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Myeung Suk Oh , Zhiyao Zhang , FNU Hairi , Alvaro Velasquez , Jia Liu

The design of wireless systems for Mission Critical Machine Type Communication (MC-MTC) is currently a hot research topic. Wireless systems are considered to provide numerous advantages over wired systems in industrial applications for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Andreas Weinand , Abhijit Ambekar , Michael Karrenbauer , Hans D. Schotten

We consider unsourced random access (uRA) in a cell-free (CF) user-centric wireless network, where a large number of potential users compete for a random access slot, while only a finite subset is active. The random access users transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Burak Çakmak , Eleni Gkiouzepi , Manfred Opper , Giuseppe Caire

The proliferation of wireless services and applications over the past decade has led to the rapidly increasing demand in wireless spectrum. Hence, we have been facing a critical spectrum shortage problem even though several measurements…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Le Thanh Tan

A memoryless state-dependent multiple access channel (MAC) is considered where two transmitters wish to convey a respective message to a receiver while simultaneously estimating the respective channel state via generalized feedback. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Mari Kobayashi , Hassan Hamad , Gerhard Kramer , Giuseppe Caire