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On the Distributed Construction of a Collision-Free Schedule in WLANs
Jaume Barcelo, Azadeh Faridi, Boris Bellalta +2
In wireless local area networks (WLANs), a media access protocol arbitrates access to the channel. In current IEEE 802.11 WLANs, carrier sense multiple access with collision avoida…
Managing Heterogeneous WSNs in Smart Cities: Challenges and Requirements
Trang Cao Minh, Boris Bellalta, Simon Oechsner +2
The dramatic advances in wireless communications and electronics have enabled the development of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). WSNs consist of many affordable and portable senso…
Capacity Analysis of IEEE 802.11ah WLANs for M2M Communications
Toni Adame, Albert Bel, Boris Bellalta +3
Focusing on the increasing market of the sensors and actuators networks, the IEEE 802.11ah Task Group is currently working on the standardization of a new amendment. This new amend…
Uni-MUMAC: A Unified Down/Up-link MU-MIMO MAC Protocol for IEEE 802.11ac WLANs
Ruizhi Liao, Boris Bellalta, Trang Cao Minh +2
Due to the dominance of the downlink traffic in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), a large number of previous research efforts have been put to enhance the transmission from the…
Future Evolution of CSMA Protocols for the IEEE 802.11 Standard
Luis Sanabria-Russo, Azadeh Faridi, Boris Bellalta +2
In this paper a candidate protocol to replace the prevalent CSMA/CA medium access control in Wireless Local Area Networks is presented. The proposed protocol can achieve higher thr…
Voice over IP in the WiFi Network business models: Will voice be a killer application for WiFi Public Networks?
Jorge Infante, Boris Bellalta
The stunning growth of WiFi networks, together with the spreading of mobile telephony and the increasing use of Voice over IP (VoIP) on top of Internet, pose relevant questions on…