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Multiple Access Communications in Future-Generation Wireless Networks

  1. Slotted Aloha is an effective random access protocol and can also be an important element of more advanced media access protocols. This paper investigates slotted Aloha in a radio environment with multiple acc...

    Authors: Di Zheng and Yu-Dong Yao
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:119
  2. Throughput maximization is one of the main challenges in multi-hop wireless mesh network (WMN). Throughput of the multi-hop WMN network seriously degrades due to the presence of the hidden node. In order to av...

    Authors: Shamsad Parvin and Takeo Fujii
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:114
  3. In this paper, we discuss a potential multiple access and modulation scheme based on polarized states (PS) of electromagnetic (EM) waves for line-of-sight (LOS) communications. The proposed scheme is theoretic...

    Authors: Bin Cao, Qin-Yu Zhang and Lin Jin
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:77
  4. We propose a methodology based on the prioritization and opportunistic reuse of the optimization algorithm known as Hungarian method for the feasible implementation of a channel-dependent scheduler in the long...

    Authors: Gerardo Agni Medina-Acosta and José Antonio Delgado-Penín
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:71
  5. This paper provides a social welfare framework for coexistence of secondary users of spectrum in the presence of static primary users. We consider a formulation that captures spatial differences in available s...

    Authors: Maxim Dashouk and Murat Alanyali
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:32
  6. We propose ZAP, an algorithm for the distributed channel assignment in cognitive radio (CR) networks. CRs are capable of identifying underutilized licensed bands of the spectrum, allowing their reuse by second...

    Authors: Paulo Roberto Walenga Junior, Mauro Fonseca, Anelise Munaretto, Aline Carneiro Viana and Artur Ziviani
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:27
  7. In order to allow for dense spatial reuse in wireless ad hoc networks, multiple access interference must be dealt with. This calls for advanced physical layer techniques, such as multiuser detection (MUD) or powe...

    Authors: Ulrike Korger, Christian Hartmann, Katsutoshi Kusume and Joerg Widmer
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:9
  8. Code division multiple access (CDMA) using direct sequence (DS) spread spectrum modulation provides multiple access capability essentially thanks to the adoption of proper sequences as spreading codes. The abi...

    Authors: Susanna Spinsante, Stefano Andrenacci and Ennio Gambi
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:4
  9. In this article, we address the goal of achieving performance gains under heavy-load and fast fading conditions. CoopMACI protocol proposed in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications...

    Authors: Murad Khalid, Yufeng Wang, Ismail Butun, Hyung-jin Kim, In-ho Ra and Ravi Sankar
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:3
  10. The implementation of efficient baseband receivers characterized by affordable computational load is a crucial point in the development of transmission systems exploiting diversity in different domains. This w...

    Authors: Leandro D'Orazio, Claudio Sacchi, Massimo Donelli, Jérôme Louveaux (EURASIP Member) and Luc Vandendorpe
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:351494
  11. The average channel capacity and the SINR distribution for multiuser multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems in combination with the base station based packet scheduler are analyzed in this paper. The pa...

    Authors: Zihuai Lin, Pei Xiao and Yi Wu
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:797840
  12. Cutting-edge wireless networking approaches are required to efficiently differentiate traffic and handle it according to its special characteristics. The current Medium Access Control (MAC) scheme which is exp...

    Authors: Thomas Lagkas and Periklis Chatzimisios
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:925165
  13. Interference-aware multiple access is an enabler to cost-efficient and reliable high data-rate local area wireless access. In this paper, we propose an interference-aware radio resource management scheme where...

    Authors: Pekka Jänis, Visa Koivunen and Cássio B. Ribeiro
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:921623
  14. We propose an efficient control channel resource allocation approach to enhance the performance of voice-over-IP (VoIP) in orthogonal frequency division multiple access- (OFDMA-) based next generation mobile c...

    Authors: Yong Fan and Mikko Valkama
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:712658
  15. Carrier sense multiple access with enhanced collision avoidance (CSMA/ECA) is a distributed MAC protocol that allows collision-free access to the medium in WLANs. The only difference between CSMA/ECA and the w...

    Authors: Jaume Barcelo, Boris Bellalta, Cristina Cano, Anna Sfairopoulou, Miquel Oliver and Kshitiz Verma
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:708617
  16. With rapid advancements in sensing, networking, and computing technologies, recent years have witnessed the emergence of cyber-physical systems (CPS) in a broad range of application domains. CPS is a new class...

    Authors: Feng Xia, Alexey Vinel, Ruixia Gao, Linqiang Wang and Tie Qiu
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:596397
  17. We provide an analytical model for efficient dynamic capacity allocation in IEEE 802.16 wireless metropolitan area network, where the nonreal-time traffic can utilize the bandwidth unused by the real-time traf...

    Authors: Zsolt Saffer, Sergey Andreev and Yevgeni Koucheryavy
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:549492
  18. In multi-rate WLANs, users can suffer transmission rate changes due to the link adaptation mechanism. This results in a variable capacity channel, which is very hostile for VoIP and can cause serious quality o...

    Authors: A. Sfairopoulou, B. Bellalta, C. Macian and M. Oliver
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:534520
  19. This paper studies carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation in the uplink of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Conventional maximum li...

    Authors: Yan Wu, J. W. M. Bergmans and Samir Attallah
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:570680
  20. The admission control mechanism inspired in the framework of proportional differentiated services has been investigated. The mechanism provides a predictable and controllable network service for real-time traf...

    Authors: Vladimir Shakhov and Hyunseung Choo
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:738386
  21. This paper focuses on the data fusion scenario where http://static-content.springer.com/image/art%3A10.1155%2F2011%2F825327/MediaObjects/13638_2010_Article_2152_IEq1_HTML.gif nodes sense and transmit the data generated by a source ...

    Authors: Javier Del Ser, Diana Manjarres, Pedro M. Crespo, Sergio Gil-Lopez and Javier Garcia-Frias
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:825327