From experience, it has been well known that the performance of IEEE 802.11 wireless local
area networks significantly drops in dense settings, largely driven by poor capacity of the …

As a promising solution for handling super dense wireless networks, wireless local area
networks (WLANs) have been intensively considered due to their wide availability. However …

The importance of unlicensed spectrum is highlighted in terms of the flexibility of network
deployment for various services envisioned in 5G and beyond. Since listen before talk is …

The IEEE 802 standards rely on the distributed coordination function (DCF) as the
fundamental medium access control method. DCF uses the binary exponential backoff …

The current contention mechanism of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function
(DCF) is known to have some drawbacks, eg, collisions and low short-term fairness induced …

In this article, we propose a low-delay routing-integrated MAC (LDRI-MAC) protocol for
wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In the LDRI-MAC protocol, we first assign a parameter …

As the amount of mobile traffic grows dramatically, the high-density Wi-Fi networking that
proposed in the next generation WLAN (NGW) has attracted an increasing attention …

Wireless network security has received tremendous attention due to the vulnerabilities
exposed in the open communication medium. The most common wireless Medium Access …

As average user load in wireless local area network (WLAN) becomes heavy, the
fundamental CSMA/CA mechanism based on binary exponential backoff (BEB) in the …

For many years, the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF) has been widely
used as a dominant medium access control (MAC) protocol in wireless networks and a large …