LA-MAC: A load adaptive MAC protocol for MANETs

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hu, Weihong ^a   Li, Xiaolong ^a   Yousefi'zadeh, Homayoun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CSMA; GNU radio; Hybrid MAC; MANET; Software defined radio; TDMA; USRP

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MAC; CHANNEL UTILIZATION; CONTENTION-BASED; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GNU RADIO; HYBRID PROTOCOLS; IN-NETWORK; LOAD ADAPTIVE; MAC PROTOCOL; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; RUNNING MODE; SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO NODES; SOFTWARE RADIO; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS;

ACCESS CONTROL; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; RADIO; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 77951572242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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