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Quality of Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

  1. Recent research has indicated that transmission control protocol (TCP) in its base form does not perform well in an ad hoc environment. The main reason identified for this behavior involves the ad hoc network ...

    Authors: Nagaraja Thanthry, Anand Kalamkar and Ravi Pendse
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:095149
  2. A wireless ad hoc network is a collection of specific infrastructureless mobile nodes forming a temporary network without any centralized administration. A user can move anytime in an ad hoc scenario and, as a...

    Authors: S Ahmed and MS Alam
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:078645
  3. Battery energy limitation has become a performance bottleneck for mobile ad hoc networks. IEEE 802.11 has been adopted as the current standard MAC protocol for ad hoc networks. However, it was developed withou...

    Authors: Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Zhengying Fan and Jie Li
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:036040
  4. Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) has been adopted by the IEEE 802.11 standards for wireless local area networks (WLANs). Using a distributed coordination function (DCF), the CSM...

    Authors: Xin Wang and Georgios B Giannakis
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:039604
  5. "Anywhere" and, in particular, "anyhow": these are the two best words that can describe an ad hoc wireless network that is due to the increasing demand for connectivity in such an information society. Ad hoc w...

    Authors: S. Guizani, M. Razzak, H. Hamam, Y. Bouslimani and A. Cheriti
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:085980
  6. It is well known that transmission control protocol (TCP) performance degrades severely in IEEE 802.11-based wireless ad hoc networks. We first identify two critical issues leading to the TCP performance degra...

    Authors: Qi He, Lin Cai, Xuemin Sherman Shen and Pinhan Ho
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:051610
  7. As an important complement to infrastructured wireless networks, mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) are more flexible in providing wireless access services, but more difficult in meeting different quality of servi...

    Authors: Yang Yang, Hai-Feng Yuan, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Wen-Bing Yao and Yong-Hua Song
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:094235
  8. This paper discusses the energy-efficient QoS topology control problem for nonhomogenous ad hoc wireless networks. Given a set of nodes with different energy and bandwidth capacities in a plane, and given the ...

    Authors: Deying Li, Xiaohua Jia and Hongwei Du
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:082417