A new and reliable MAC protocol is proposed to reduce the number of control handshake
messages, such as RTS (Request-To-Send) and CTS (Clear-To-Send), incurred prior to …

Ad hoc networks consist of a group of wireless nodes that dynamically form a multihop
network via shared communication channels. For each node, channel access is managed …

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are found to be useful in many areas like military
applications, emergency operations, wireless sensor network, and distributed computing …

In this paper, we propose a novel medium access control (MAC) protocol called flow-driven
MAC (FD-MAC) for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). FD-MAC is a slotted MAC protocol …

We introduce a methodology for studying wireless ad hoc networks in a multihop traffic
environment. Our approach is to use theoretical upper bounds on network performance for …

One way to improve the throughput of a wireless ad hoc network at the media access (MAC)
layer is to allow as much as possible concurrent transmissions among neighboring nodes. In …

Motivated by the poor experimental scaling reported in a study of the performance of ad hoc
networks in [15], we propose a new protocol for media access control in ad hoc networks …

We introduce two new medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless ad hoc networks,
the progressive backoff algorithm (PBOA) and the progressive ramp up algorithm (PRUA) …

In recent years, a wide variety of mobile computing devices have emerged, including
portables, palmtops, and personal digital assistants. Providing adequate network …

Technological advances in wireless communications have made it possible the existence of
an ad hoc network which is roughly a multi-hop wireless network of mobile nodes without …