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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…
Over the years, advancements such as increased bandwidth, new modulation and coding schemes, frame aggregation, and the use of multiple antennas have been employed to enhance Wi-Fi performance. Nonetheless, as network density and the demand…
In Wireless Multi-hop Networks (WMhNs), routing protocols with energy efficient and delay reduction techniques are needed to fulfill users demands. In this paper, we present Linear Programming models (LP_models) to assess and enhance…
Predictable network performance is key in many low-power wireless sensor network applications. In this paper, we use machine learning as an effective technique for real-time characterization of the communication performance as observed by…
This paper presents an approach for low-cost simulation modeling for application development for wireless sensor networks. Computational complexity of simulating wireless sensor networks can be very high and as such must be carefully…
This paper presents a survey of energy efficiency of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASNs). We highlight the features of MAC protocols along with their advantages and limitations in context of…
Active sensing refers to the process of choosing or tuning a set of sensors in order to track an underlying system in an efficient and accurate way. In a wireless environment, among the several kinds of features extracted by traditional…
Receiver-initiated medium access control protocols for wireless sensor networks are theoretically able to adapt to changing network conditions in a distributed manner. However, existing algorithms rely on fixed beacon rates at each…
With the advent of the 5G wireless networks, achieving tens of gigabits per second throughputs and low, milliseconds, latency has become a reality. This level of performance will fuel numerous real-time applications, such as autonomy and…
Wireless Sensor Network WSN is consisted of nodes with different sizes and a specific goal. Tracking applications are very important in WSNs. This study proposes a method for reducing energy consumption in WSNs, considering target tracking.…
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…
The paper presents a simple probabilistic analysis of the energy consumption in preamble sampling MAC protocols. We validate the analytical results with simulations. We compare the classical MAC protocols (B-MAC and X-MAC) with LAMAC, 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…
Energy management is a crucial challenge in wireless sensor networks. To date, many techniques have been proposed to reduce energy consumption. Duty cycle methods reduce the energy consumption of wireless sensor networks since energy…
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an attractive choice for a variety of applications as no wired infrastructure is needed. Other wireless networks are not as energy constrained as WSNs, because they may be plugged into the mains supply or…
The forthcoming 6G systems are expected to address a wide range of non-stationary tasks. This poses challenges to traditional medium access control (MAC) protocols that are static and predefined. In response, data-driven MAC protocols have…
Recently designed cross-layer contention based synchronous MAC protocols like the PRMAC protocol, for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) enable a node to schedule multi-hop transmission of multiple data packets in a cycle. However, these…
This paper conducts a detailed simulation study of stateless anycast routing in a mobile wireless ad hoc network. The model covers all the fundamental aspects of such networks with a routing mechanism using a scheme of orientation-dependent…
Adaptivity, reconfigurability and intelligence are key features of the next-generation wireless networks to meet the increasingly diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements of the future applications. Conventional protocol designs,…
Efficient radio spectrum utilization and low energy consumption in mobile devices are essential in developing next generation wireless networks. This paper presents a new medium access control (MAC) mechanism to enhance spectrum efficiency…