A Result on Hybrid Scheduling in Wireless Networks

Abstract

Medium access control is an exceedingly important aspect of the operation of any network. This is particularly true in wireless settings where the broadcast nature of the medium accentuates the need for effective medium access algorithms which provide good throughput and fairness characteristics. By far the most popular MAC techniques for wireless networks are those based on Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) due to their simplicity and amenability to distributed implementation. The IEEE 802.11 MAC is an example of a widely used MAC protocol that uses CSMA. However, CSMA protocols are often inadequate when fairness is of importance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA555025

Entities

People

  • Nitin H. Vaidya
  • Vartika Bhandari

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Bandwidth
  • Computer Access Control
  • Engineering
  • Illinois
  • Information Operations
  • Lyapunov Functions
  • Military Research
  • Multiple Access
  • Networks
  • Production Engineering
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Time Division Multiple Access
  • Universities
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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