Cooperative and Adaptive Medium Access Control in Multi-hop Wireless Networks

Due to low cost and easy deployment, multi-hop wireless networks become a very attractive communication paradigm. However, IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) protocol widely used in wireless LANs was not designed for multi-hop wireless networks. Although it can support some kinds of ad hoc netw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wan, Zhiwen
Format: Others
Published: FIU Digital Commons 2008
Online Access:http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/272
http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1347&context=etd