The abstract MAC layer

Distributed Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 187-206

  Kuhn, Fabian ^a   Lynch, Nancy ^b   Newport, Calvin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Broadcast; Medium access control; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION; BROADCAST; BROADCAST COMMUNICATION; CHANNEL BEHAVIOR; DELAY FUNCTION; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; LOWER BOUNDS; MAC LAYER; MEDIUM ACCESS; MULTIPLE MESSAGES; RADIO NETWORK MODELS; RADIO NETWORKS; STATIC NETWORKS;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; RADIO; RADIO BROADCASTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 84855556180     PISSN: 01782770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00446-010-0118-0     Document Type: Article

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