IEEE 802.11-based wireless technology is widely applied in many areas, supporting
communications where wired devices are not available. However, providing satisfactory …

The hidden terminal problem is known to degrade the throughput of wireless networks due
to collisions, while the exposed terminal problem results in poor performance by wasting …

Recent advances in self-interference cancellation techniques have enabled in-band full-
duplex (IBFD) transmission, which can double ergodic capacity and reduce end-to-end …

Leveraging concurrent transmission is a promising way to improve throughput in wireless
networks. Existing media access control (MAC) protocols like carrier sense multiple access …

When the M2M devices communicate and share data with each other within a group or
cluster without any direct human intervention, it is called inter-M2M communications. For this …

In recent years, wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) have been extensively
deployed to monitor physical environment and facilitate decision making based on data …

Energy utilization is increasingly significant for heterogeneous wireless multi-hop systems.
Energy utilization models are progressively powerful in giving the usefulness of convention …

Concurrent transmission scheduling mechanisms can significantly improve the total
throughput of IEEE 802.11 ad hoc networks. What remains unaddressed, however, is how to …

This paper focuses on contention-based medium access control (MAC) protocols used in
wireless local area networks. We propose a novel MAC protocol called adaptive backoff …

Low duty cycle operation is a well-known mechanism used for achieving energy efficiency in
wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Nodes under this concept work only for a small …