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High performance wireless switch protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Performance evaluation of MAC transmission power control in wireless sensor networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Capacity analysis of interfering channels
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
Autonomous Transmission Power Adaptation for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
ADHOC-NOW '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks
Distributed multichannel MAC protocol for IEEE 802.11 ad hoc wireless LANs
Computer Communications
Bandwidth-based routing protocols in mobile ad hoc networks
The Journal of Supercomputing
Survey Paper: A survey on multi-channel communication in wireless sensor networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Multi-channel support for dense wireless sensor networking
EuroSSC'06 Proceedings of the First European conference on Smart Sensing and Context
Mitigating starvation in wireless ad hoc networks: multi-channel MAC and power control
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
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Abstract: In a mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET), one essential issue is Medium Access Control (MAC), which addresses how to utilize the radio spectrum efficiently and to resolve potential contention and collision among mobile hosts on using the medium. Existing works have dedicated to using multiple channels and power control to improve the performance of MANET. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of bringing the concepts of power control and multi-channel medium access together in the MAC design problem in a MANET. Existing protocols only address one of these issues independently. The proposed protocol is characterized by the following features: (i) it follows an "on-demand" style to assign channels to mobile hosts, (ii) the number of channels required is independent of the network topology and degree, (iii) it flexibly adapts to host mobility, (iv) no form of clock synchronization is required, and (v) power control is used to exploit frequency reuse. Power control may also extend battery life and reduce signal interference, both of which are important in wireless communication. Through simulations, we demonstrate the advantage of our new protocol.