Sfairopoulou, Anna (Date of defense: 2008-07-28)
In IEEE 802.11 WLANs, Link Adaptation mechanisms, which choose the transmission rate of each node, provoke unexpected and random variations on the effective channel capacity. When these changes are ...
Liao, Ruizhi (Date of defense: 2014-10-06)
IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks, especially the infrastructure based Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) or Wi-Fi networks, are hugely successful, and have become an indispensable part of our life ...
Sanabria-Russo, Luis (Date of defense: 2016-10-21)
Using a deterministic backoff after successful transmissions as a distributed contention mechanism for access to the channel can draw benefits from scheduled operation, like the elimination of simultaneous ...
Cao Minh, Trang (Date of defense: 2014-09-25)
Through advances in sensor, networking, semiconductor and energy storage technologies, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are increasingly being deployed in many important applications to enable users to ...
Cano Bastidas, Cristina (Date of defense: 2011-03-04)
In the last few years Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become an interesting field of research mainly due to the challenges and constraints of their design and the broad range of potential applications ...