Browsing by Author "Agrawal, Prathima"

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Resource Allocation and Performance Optimization in Wireless Networks

Zhou, Hui (2014-03-31)

In the past few years, demand has kept increasing for higher data rates in wireless networks due to the increases in the numbers of mobile subscribers and multimedia applications. Femtocell and free space optics(FSO) ...

Resource Sharing in a WiFi-WiMAX Integrated Network

Andrews, Nirmal (2009-12-15)

Resource allocation is a challenging issue in integrated wireless environments due to factors like difference in participating network protocols, design of hierarchical network architecture, user mobility and multiple ...

RLCH: Reliable Link lifetime based Cluster Head election in MANET

Chen, Dongsheng (2012-07-16)

Clustering has been widely considered in wireless ad hoc networks as a useful mechanism for solving the scalability problems, improving the stability, increasing the network’s energy efficiency, etc. The idea behind ...

Scheduling DAGs For Minimum Finish Time and Power Consumption on Heterogeneous Processors

Palli, Kirankumar (2005-08-15)

In the past years, scheduling has always been a hot research area, and with the advancement of processor technologies, there has been an increasing focus on the strategies that allow managing resource allocation in an ...

Scheduling in WiMAX based wireless networks

Soundararajan, Srivathsan (2008-12-15)

This thesis describes two transmission scheduling algorithms and a hybrid ARQ transmission handling algorithm designed for WiMAX based wireless networks. WiMAX networks are based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple ...

SCL: A Cross-Layer Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Zhang, Min (2012-01-08)

Wireless Sensor Networks are a new class of distributed systems that are used to collect information from the physical area they inhabit. They usually consist of a large number of low-power wireless sensor nodes or motes ...

Secure Localization and Node Placement Strategies for Wireless Networks

Pandey, Santosh (2007-08-15)

Localization and placement problems in wireless networks have been widely studied. The adaptation of localization in real world environment can be observed by popular commercial and non-commercial GPS applications. ...

Synergy MAC: A Cooperative MAC Protocol

Kulkarni, Santosh (2009-02-25)

Since the advent of IEEE's 802.11 standard, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) have gained widespread acceptance in providing broadband wireless access to portable devices. The performance of any WLAN depends largely on ...

Wireless Mesh Routing in Smart Utility Networks

Iyer, Gopalakrishnan (2011-11-18)

Today’s world is more dependent on electrical power than ever. This dependency will increase manifold in the near future with more systems being computerized and a plethora of new electronic devices emerging for household, ...