Abstract / truncated to 115 words (read the full abstract)

This thesis aims at contributing to the incessant evolution of wireless communications. The focus is on the design of medium access control (MAC) protocols for ad hoc and cooperative wireless networks. A comprehensive state of the art and a background on the topic is provided in a first preliminary part of this dissertation. The motivations and key objectives of the thesis are also presented in this part. Then, the contributions of the thesis are divided into two fundamental parts. The first part of the thesis is devoted to the design, analysis, and performance evaluation of a new high-performance MAC protocol. It is the Distributed Queueing MAC Protocol for Ad hoc Networks (DQMAN) and constitutes an ... toggle 9 keywords

medium access control MAC cooperative communications wireless communications distributed queuing DQ DQMAN markov chain modeling simulation.

Information

Author
Alonso-Zarate, Jesus
Institution
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
Supervisors
Publication Year
2009
Upload Date
Oct. 27, 2014

First few pages / click to enlarge

The current layout is optimized for mobile phones. Page previews, thumbnails, and full abstracts will remain hidden until the browser window grows in width.

The current layout is optimized for tablet devices. Page previews and some thumbnails will remain hidden until the browser window grows in width.