Cognitive radio (CR) has emerged as a promising technology to exploit the unused portions
of spectrum in an opportunistic manner. The fixed spectrum allocation of governmental …

Over the last decade, the paradigm of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) has matured to a
reasonably commonly understood one, and there has been extensive research on various …

Modern data centers are massive, and support a range of distributed applications across
potentially hundreds of server racks. As their utilization and bandwidth needs continue to …

Sensor networks are deemed suitable for large-scale deployments in the wild for a variety of
applications. In spite of the remarkable efforts the community put to build the sensor systems …

In this article, we explore a new design paradigm of duty-cycling mechanism that supports
low-power devices to fully turn channel contention into transmission opportunities. To …

Accurate interference models are important for use in transmission scheduling algorithms in
wireless networks. In this work, we perform extensive modeling and experimentation on two …

Fast searching a particular subset in a large number of products attached with radio
frequency identification (RFID) tags is of practical importance for a variety of applications, but …

Interference is a critical issue in wireless communications. In a typical multiple-user
environment, different users may severely interfere with each other. Coordination among …

IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) is one of the technologies that provides high performance with a high
density of connected devices to support emerging demanding services, such as virtual and …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly deployed for mission-critical applications
such as emergency management and health care, which impose stringent requirements on …