Queues with Service Rate Controlled by a Delayed Feedback
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On achieving fairness and efficiency in high-speed shared medium access
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Efficient Network Utilization for Multimedia Wireless Networks
NETWORKING '00 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6/European Commission International Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks
InterPlaNetary internet: state-of-the-art and research challenges
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Communication support for future earth science space missions
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Networking for the earth science
A survey of practical issues in underwater networks
WUWNet '06 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Underwater networks
Mobile computing: Opportunities for optimization research
Computer Communications
Connecting Grids Using Communication Satellites
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Scheduling for H.264 video traffic over GEO satellite networks
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Mobility management and wireless access
A survey of practical issues in underwater networks
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Simulation of MAC protocol in near space communication network based on TDMA
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Cable modem buffer management in DOCSIS networks
Sarnoff'10 Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE conference on Sarnoff
ICOIN'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Information Networking: convergence in broadband and mobile networking
A new MAC protocol based on multimedia traffic prediction in satellite systems
NEW2AN'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking
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Medium access control protocols are at the core of all forms of electronic communications systems. MAC protocols are designed to coordinate the transmission of packets, retransmission of damaged packets, and resolution of collisions among stations during a contention period. MAC protocols are foundations in low-level network architecture and play a significant role in the performance of higher-level protocols such as multiservices and multimedia application protocols. In this article five classes of MAC protocols are investigated with respect to their applications in satellite communications. These classes include fixed assignments, demand assignment, random access, hybrid random access and reservation, and adaptive protocols. Among several QoS objectives described in high-speed networking and the limitations inherent in satellite communications systems, in this article a set of important performance criteria are identified and used to evaluate different MAC protocols for satellite communications. The performance criteria include high channel throughput, low transmission delay, channel stability, protocol scalability, channel reconfigurability, broadband applicability, and low complexity of the control algorithm. For this, a simulation study is performed among selected MAC protocols from different classes, and their performances have been evaluated for NASA's Mars Regional Network