Web services are middleware designed to support the interoperation between different
software systems and devices over the Web. Today, we encounter a variety of situations in …

Due to the emerging various data services, current cellular networks have been
experiencing a surge of data traffic and are already overloaded; thus, they are not able to …

The emergence of large-scale wireless networks with partially-observable and time-varying
dynamics has imposed new challenges on the design of optimal control policies. This paper …

Link scheduling plays a pivotal role in accommodating stringent reliability and latency
requirements. In this paper, we focus on the availability and effectiveness of applying …

Interference model is the basis of MAC protocol design in wireless networked sensing and
control, and it directly affects the efficiency and predictability of wireless messaging. To …

Software-defined networking (SDN) brings new opportunities in the design of more reliable
and flexible consistent network update mechanisms by making the update process …

Existing work that schedules concurrent transmissions without collisions suffers from low
channel utilization. We propose the Optimal Node Activation Multiple Access (ONAMA) …

Cooperative communication techniques offer significant performance benefits over
traditional methods that do not exploit the broadcast nature of wireless transmissions. Such …

Co-channel interference is a limiting factor to the predictability and performance of wireless
networks, thus interference-oriented scheduling of channel access has become a basic …

IEEE 802.11 s mesh networking standard supports Mesh Coordinated Channel Access
(MCCA) to provide better quality of service (QoS) through channel reservation during the …