Cater: An Opportunistic Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks

An adaptive MAC protocol is developed and analyzed that offers a "best case" scenario by allowing the MAC to control medium parameters thereby fully exploiting the channel of an ad hoc wireless LAN. This new, opportunistic medium access control protocol is called CATER (Code Adapts To Enh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mullins, Barry E.
Other Authors: Electrical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30578
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-52497-151055/