Recent technological advances in wireless communications offer new opportunities and
challenges for wireless ad hoc networking. In the absence of the fixed infrastructure that …

Studies of ad hoc wireless networks are a relatively new field gaining more popularity for
various new applications. In these networks, the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols …

Technological advances, coupled with the flexibility and mobility of wireless systems, are the
driving force behind the Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime paradigm of networking. At the same …

The beamforming antenna technology is a promising solution to many challenges facing
wireless ad hoc networks. Beamforming antennas have the ability to increase the spatial …

A wireless ad hoc network is a collection of wireless nodes that can dynamically self-
organize into an arbitrary and temporary topology to form a network without necessarily …

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are useful in environment where fixed network
infrastructure is unavailable. To function normally, MANETs demand an efficient and …

Recently, flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) have been broadly applied to various civilian
and military applications. Medium access control (MAC) protocols have attracted significant …

This paper proposes a medium access control (MAC) protocol for ad hoc wireless networks
that utilizes multiple channels dynamically to improve performance. The IEEE 802.11 …

Carrier sense multiple access and its variants have been widely used in mobile ad hoc
networks. However, most existing access mechanisms cannot guarantee quality for real-time …

IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol has been the standard for wireless LANs and is also
implemented in many simulation software for mobile ad hoc networks. However, IEEE …