Related papers: Efficient Queue-based CSMA with Collisions
In this paper, we investigate the problem of cooperative relay in CR networks for further enhanced network performance. In particular, we focus on the two representative cooperative relay strategies, and develop optimal spectrum sensing and…
The enormous quality of service (QoS) demands posed by mission-critical use-cases of future 5G/6G wireless communication raise the need for resource-efficient highly reliable and low latency connectivity solutions. Multi-connectivity is…
As 6G networks demand massive connectivity and stronger interference control, rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is attractive because it superposes a common stream and user-private streams and remains effective under imperfect CSIT and…
Graphs are commonly used to model various complex systems, including social networks, power grids, transportation networks, and biological systems. In many applications, the connectivity of these networks can be expressed through the Mean…
Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is a promising technique for downlink multi-antenna communications owning to its capability of enhancing the system performance in a wide range of network loads, user deployments and channel state…
Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) enables secondary networks to find and efficiently exploit spectrum opportunities. A key factor to design a DSA network is the spectrum sensing algorithms for multiple channels with multiple users. Multi-user…
The performance of modern wireless communication systems is typically limited by interference. The impact of interference can be even more severe in ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) use cases. A powerful tool for…
We describe a new synchronous and distributed medium access control (MAC) protocol for multihop wireless networks that provides bandwidth guarantees to unicast connections. Our MAC protocol is based on a slotted time division multiple…
Wireless sensor networks are composed of distributed sensors that can be used for signal detection or classification. The likelihood functions of the hypotheses are often not known in advance, and decision rules have to be learned via…
Many analytical models have been proposed for evaluating the performance of event-driven 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), in Non-Beacon Enabled (NBE) mode. However, existing models do not provide accurate analysis of large-scale…
The Cognitive Radio (CR) network provides the solution to the spectrum deficiency problem by enhancing the spectrum utilization. In recent years, Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has also gained significant interest in improving the…
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…
In today's WLANs, scheduling of packet transmissions solely relies on the collision and success a station may experience. To better support traffic differentiation in dense WLANs, in this paper, we propose a distributed reservation…
We consider a system of several collocated nodes sharing a time slotted wireless channel, and seek a MAC (medium access control) that (i) provides low mean delay, (ii) has distributed control (i.e., there is no central scheduler), and (iii)…
Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has emerged as a promising technique for efficient interference management in next-generation wireless networks. While most existing studies focus on downlink and single-cell designs, the modeling and…
The challenge of designing an efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol and analyzing it has been an important research topic for over 30 years. This paper focuses on the performance analysis (through simulation) and modification of a…
This paper presents comparison of Access Techniques used in Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). Comparison is performed between Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple…
Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) is a flexible and robust multiple access scheme for downlink multi-antenna wireless networks. RSMA relies on Rate-Splitting (RS) at the transmitter and Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) at the…
Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a new frequency domain non-orthogonal multiple-access technique which can improve spectral efficiency of wireless radio access. With SCMA, different incoming data streams are directly mapped to…
In this paper, we propose a semi-distributed cooperative spectrum sen sing (SDCSS) and channel access framework for multi-channel cognitive radio networks (CRNs). In particular, we c onsider a SDCSS scheme where secondary users (SUs)…