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A modified time-hopping (TH) ultra-wideband (UWB), called the random sign repetition TH-UWB, is considered to improve the performance of the minimum mean square error (MMSE) multiuser detector. We show that the increase of dimension or the number of repetitions is important to improve the performance of the MMSE detector in the random sign repetition TH-UWB for either coded or uncoded signals.
IEEE 802.11 is the most popular and widely used standard for wireless local area network communication. It has attracted countless numbers of studies devoted to improving the performance of the standard in many ways. In this article, we performed theoretical analyses for providing a solution to the maximum throughput problem for the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function, and an algorithm using...
Although different call admission control (CAC) schemes have been proposed for cellular-wireless local area network (WLAN) interworking systems, no studies consider mobile stations (MSs) only with a single interface (for either WLANs or cellular networks) and thus these MSs will experience higher call blocking and dropping probabilities. In this article, we propose a new CAC scheme that considers...
This article presents an analytical investigation on the performance of interference-limited fixed-gain amplify-and-forward dual-hop relaying systems over Nakagami-m fading channels. Assuming the fading parameter m of the two hop channels being integer, we derive a closed-form expression of the cumulative distribution function of a new type of random variables involving a number of independent gamma...
In this article, we present a novel theoretical framework suitable for analytical performance evaluation of a family of multihop broadcast protocols. The framework allows to derive several average performance metrics, including reliability, latency, and efficiency, and it is targeted to Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) applications based on an underlying IEEE 802.11 protocol. It builds on the assumption...
In this article, we intend to investigate the performance of channel access protocols in multi-hop underwater acoustic sensor networks, which are characterized by long propagation delays and limited channel bandwidth. An analytical model specifically designed for contention-based protocols in multi-hop underwater acoustic networks is identified and validated. The model is based on an underwater network...
The use of reduced power subframes in LTE Rel. 11 can improve the capacity of heterogeneous networks (HetNets) while also providing interference coordination to the picocell-edge users. However, in order to obtain maximum benefits from the reduced power subframes, setting the key system parameters, such as the amount of power reduction, carries critical importance. Using stochastic geometry, this...
In this paper, we develop a framework that can be used to analyze the outage probability of a dual-hop fixed-gain amplify-and-forward relay system performing single relay selection. We consider three selection strategies: (1) first-hop selection, whereby the relay is chosen to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the relay irrespective of the second-hop channels; (2) second-hop selection,...
Spectrum sensing plays a significant role in enabling utilization of spectrum holes by unlicensed secondary users (SUs) in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). Most of the related work concerning spectrum sensing has focused on sensing carried out by incoming secondary users (SUs) aiming at locating spectrum opportunities. However, in order to appropriately protect returning licensed primary users (PUs),...
This paper investigates the outage performance of cognitive spectrum-sharing multi-relay networks in which the relays operate in a full-duplex (FD) mode and employ the decode-and-forward (DF) protocol. Two relay selection schemes, i.e., partial relay selection (PRS) and optimal relay selection (ORS), are considered to enhance the system performance. New exact expressions for the outage probability...
We consider a cognitive wireless network in which users adopt a spectrum sharing strategy based on cooperation constraints. The majority of cognitive radio schemes bifurcate the role of players as either cooperative or non-cooperative. In this work, however, we modify this strategy to one in which players are hybrid, i.e., both cooperative and non-cooperative. Using a Stackelberg game strategy, we...
In directional wireless sensor networks (DSNs), sensor nodes with directional antennas provide extended network lifetime and better coverage performance. However, one of the key challenges of directional nodes is to discover their neighbors due to difficulty in achieving synchronization among their directed transmissions and receptions. Existing solutions suffer from high discovery latency and poor...
In this paper, the Erlang capacity achieved by the separate or joint use of several resource management mechanisms commonly considered in the literature (spectrum aggregation, spectrum adaptation, call buffering, channel reservation, selective interruption, and preemptive prioritization) to mitigate the effects of secondary call interruptions in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) is evaluated and compared...
Previous work on the performance analysis of IEEE 802.11p beaconing protocol has paid little attention to the varying number of contending nodes and the restricted channel access: Since each node is allowed to broadcast only one beacon frame per control channel (CCH), the number of contending nodes decreases as the CCH elapses. Thus, the performance of 802.11p MAC protocol varies with the number of...
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