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Control/command processes require a transmission system with some characteristics like high reliability, low latency and strong guarantees on messages delivery. Concerning wire networks, field buses technologies like FIP offer this kind of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Adrien Van Den Bossche , Thierry Val , Eric Campo

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

Wireless local area networks (WLAN) still suffer from a severe performance discrepancy between different users in the uplink. This is because of the spatially varying channel conditions provided by the wireless medium. Cooperative medium…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-04 Georg Böcherer

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

WLAN is one of the most successful applications of wireless communications in daily life because of low cost and ease of deployment. The enabling technique for this success is the use of random access schemes for the wireless channel.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-03 Georg Böcherer , Alexandre de Baynast

We consider the design of cognitive Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols enabling a secondary (unlicensed) transmitter-receiver pair to communicate over the idle periods of a set of primary (licensed) channels. More specifically, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-07-25 Omar Mehanna , Ahmed Sultan , Hesham El Gamal

This paper proposes a cross-layer based cognitive radio multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocol with TDMA, which integrate the spectrum sensing at physical (PHY) layer and the packet scheduling at MAC layer, for the ad hoc…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-09-28 S. M. Kamruzzaman

Wireless objects equipped with multiple antennas are able to simultaneously transmit multiple packets by exploiting the channel's spatial dimensions. In this paper, we study the benefits of such Multiple Packet Transmission (MPT) approach,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Boris Bellalta , Azadeh Faridi , Dirk Staehle , Jaume Barcelo , Alexey Vinel , Miquel Oliver

In Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN), a channel assignment has to balance the objectives of maintaining connectivity and increasing the aggregate bandwidth. The main aim of the channel assignment algorithm is to assign the channels to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-13 K. Valarmathi , N. Malmurugan

As wireless devices boom, and bandwidth-hungry applications (e.g., video and cloud uploading) get popular, today's Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) become not only crowded but also stressed at throughput. Multi-user Multiple-Input and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ruizhi Liao , Boris Bellalta , Miquel Oliver , Zhisheng Niu

Unlike wired networks, the capacity of a wireless network is interference limited due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium. Some multicast wireless network protocols do not consider channel assignment issue, that they cause…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-12 Abbas Nargesi , Mehdi Ghasemi

Medium access in 5G systems was tailored to accommodate diverse traffic classes through network resource slicing. 6G wireless systems are expected to be significantly reliant on Artificial Intelligence (AI), leading to data-driven and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Shashi Raj Pandey , Fabio Saggese , Junya Shiraishi , Federico Chiariotti , Petar Popovski

The network protocol architecture not only can be designed from the traditional view of layers, but also can be designed from the view of planes, i.e., the data, control and management planes. Media access control (MAC) is a function of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zhongjiang Yan , Bo Li , Mao Yang

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band is seen as a key enabler of multi-gigabit wireless access in future cellular networks. In order to overcome the propagation challenges, mmWave systems use a large number of antenna elements both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Gabor Fodor , Petar Popovski , Michele Zorzi

Over the past decade we have witnessed a rapid growth and development in wireless communication systems, to the point that conventional spectrum allocation policies may not be able to fulfill them all. Federal Communications Commission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-11 Armin Banaei , Costas N. Georghiades

Extensive energy is consumed by Transceiver communication operation [1]. Existing research on MAC layer focuses to maximize battery-powered sensor node's life. Bottleneck of MAC layer protocol design for WBAN is to achieve high reliability…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 A. Rahim , N. Javaid , M. Aslam , U. Qasim , Z. A. Khan

A robust and resilient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is crucial for numerous machine-type devices to concurrently access the channel in a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) network. Simplex (reservation or contention based) MAC protocols are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Yi Liu , Chau Yuen , Xianghui Cao , Naveed Ul Hassan , Jiming Chen

Multiple access technology played an important role in wireless communication in the last decades: it increases the capacity of the channel and allows different users to access the system simultaneously. However, the conventional multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yongpeng Wu , Xiqi Gao , Shidong Zhou , Wei Yang , Yury Polyanskiy , Giuseppe Caire

We consider the design of cognitive Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols enabling an unlicensed (secondary) transmitter-receiver pair to communicate over the idle periods of a set of licensed channels, i.e., the primary network. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-10-09 Omar Mehanna , Ahmed Sultan , Hesham El Gamal

The capacity region of a two-transmitter Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC) under average input power constraints is studied, when the receiver employs a zero-threshold one-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC). It is proved that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Borzoo Rassouli , Morteza Varasteh , Deniz Gunduz