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A node equipped with a multi-beam antenna can achieve a throughput of up to m times as compared to a single-beam antenna, by simultaneously communicating on its m non-interfering beams. However, the existing multi-beam medium access control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Shivam Garg , Nandini Venkatraman , Elizabeth Serena Bentley , Sunil Kumar

Complex applications implemented as Systems on Chip (SoCs) demand extensive use of system level modeling and validation. Their implementation gathers a large number of complex IP cores and advanced interconnection schemes, such as…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Cesar Marcon , Ney Calazans , Fernando Moraes , Altamiro Susin , Igor Reis , Fabiano Hessel

This paper considers joint beamformer design towards maximizing the mutual information in a coherent wireless sensor network with noisy observation and multiple antennae. Leveraging the weighted minimum mean square error and block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Yang Liu , Jing Li , Xuanxuan Lu

Sensing will be an important service of future wireless networks to assist innovative applications such as autonomous driving and environment monitoring. Perceptive mobile networks (PMNs) were proposed to add sensing capability to current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Lei Xie , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Rapid progress in microelectromechanical system (MEMS) and radio frequency (RF) design has enabled the development of low-power, inexpensive, and network-enabled microsensors. These sensor nodes are capable of capturing various physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-09-24 Monica , Ajay K Sharma

This paper investigates practical 5G strategies for power-balanced non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). By allowing multiple users to share the same time and frequency, NOMA can scale up the number of served users and increase spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Haoyuan Pan , Lu Lu , Soung Chang Liew

It is well known that biology-inspired self-maintaining algorithms in wireless sensor nodes achieve near optimum time division multiple access (TDMA) characteristics in a decentralized manner and with very low complexity. We extend such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-18 Dujdow Buranapanichkit , Yiannis Andreopoulos

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) has been one of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) schemes aiming to support high spectral efficiency and ubiquitous access requirements for 5G wireless communication networks. Conventional SCMA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Jinzhi Lin , Shengzhong Feng , Zhile Yang , Yun Zhang , Yong Zhang

Movable antennas (MAs) represent a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by dynamically adapting the positions of antenna elements within a designated transmit area. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

The ability to perform traffic differentiation is a promising feature of the current Medium Access Control (MAC) in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) protocol for WLANs proposes up to four…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Luis Sanabria-Russo , Boris Bellalta

Movable antenna (MA) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing wireless communication performance by exploiting spatial degrees of freedom through flexible antenna repositioning. However, most existing designs rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Ge Yan , Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Rui Zhang

The emerging demands of sixth-generation wireless networks, such as ultra-connectivity, native intelligence, and cross-domain convergence, are bringing renewed focus to cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (C-NOMA) as a fundamental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mahmoud M. Salim , Suhail I. Al-Dharrab , Daniel Benevides Da Costa , Ali H. Muqaibel

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

In this survey paper, our goal is to discuss recent advances of compressive sensing (CS) based solutions in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) including the main ongoing/recent research efforts, challenges and research trends in this area. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-23 Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

It was shown recently that CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access)-like distributed algorithms can achieve the maximal throughput in wireless networks (and task processing networks) under certain assumptions. One important, but idealized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Libin Jiang , Jean Walrand

The cognitive radio wireless sensor networks have become an integral part of communicating spectrum information to the fusion center, in a cooperative spectrum sensing environment. A group of battery operated sensors or nodes, sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Atchutananda Surampudi , Krishnamoorthy Kalimuthu

CSMA/ECA is a contention protocol that makes it possible to construct a collision-free schedule by using a deterministic backoff after successful transmissions. In this paper, we further enhance the CSMA/ECA protocol with two properties…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Luis Sanabria-Russo , Jaume Barcelo , Boris Bellalta

We present our current work-in-progress on the design and implementation of a hybrid TDMA/CSMA medium access architecture, hereafter referred to as hMAC, which can be used on top of commercial IEEE 802.11 off-the-shelf hardware. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Sven Zehl , Anatolij Zubow , Adam Wolisz

Ever since the feasibility of in-band full-duplex (FD) at the Physical (PHY) layer has been established, several studies have emerged investigating protocol aspects of enabling FD operation in various legacy wireless technologies. Recently,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Adnan Aijaz , Parag Kulkarni

In this technical report, the throughput performance of CSMA networks with two representative receiver structures, i.e., the collision model and the capture model, is characterized and optimized. The analysis is further applied to an IEEE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Xinghua Sun , Lin Dai