Understanding the key performance issues with MAC protocols for multi-hop wireless networks

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 745-760

  Iyer, Aravind ^a   Rosenberg, Catherine ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Additive interference model; Busy tone; Medium access control (MAC); Multi hop wireless networks; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; THROUGHPUT;

AD HOC NETWORKS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); MESH NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749343517     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.439     Document Type: Article

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