Monday, October 22, 2007

A Generic Framework for Modeling MAC Protocols in Wireless Broadband Access Networks

Xinhua Ling, Jon W. Mark, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo
Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology

Disappointing. However, it remembered me the need to include an explanation of the renewal theory in my next article. And to include yet another assumption for the model: no hidden terminal effect.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Admission Control in IEEE 802.11e Wireless LANs

Deyun Gao and Jianfei Cai, King Ngi Ngan

Lots of stuff. First, a comprehensive explanation of DCF,PCF, EDCA, HCCA... etc. Then, a classification of admission control in model-based and measurement-based and a revision of the proposed alternatives.

more conferences

Copy&Paste from
http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/usemod10/wiki.cgi?MyDeadlines

* INFOCOM'08: Passed, Notification: 11/12 [CFP]
* PerCom?'08: 9/4, Notification: 11/16 [CFP]
* WiSec?'08, 9/15, Notification: 12/10/07 [CFP]
* NSDI'08: 10/9, Notification: 12/21 [CFP]
* SIGMETRICS'08, 10/26R, 11/2S, Notification: 2/5/08 [CFP]
* IPSN'08, 10/26R, 11/2S, Notification: 2/5/08 [CFP]
* IPTPS'09, 11/2, Notification: 1/11/08 [CFP]
* ICDCS'08: 11/15, Notification: 3/3/08 [CFP]
* Mobihoc'08: 11/22, Notification: 2/28 [CFP]
* MobiSys'08: 11/26R/12/4S, Notification: 3/4 [CFP]
* Secon;08: 12/4R, 12/11S, Notification: 3/14 [CFP]
* SIGCOMM'08: 1/31 (2007)
* MOBICOM'08: 3/2 (2007)

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Analysis of Concatenation and Packing Mechanisms in IEEE 802.11n

Dionysios Skordoulis, Qiang Ni, Usman Ali & Marios Hadjinicolaou

It explains that there are two kinds of aggregation and that they can be combined. These aggregation is required to provide higher bitrates at the MAC SAP.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Toward Efficient Service-Level QoS Provisioning in Large-Scale 802.11-Based Networks

Tarik Taleb, Tohoku University
Abdelhamid Nafaa and Liam Murphy, University College Dublin
Kazuo Hashimoto, Nei Kato, and Yoshiaki Nemoto, Tohoku University

The title/abstract/introduction seemed interesting. There was CAC (in which Cristina has been working), QoS (Boris), and Multirate (Anna). But I finished reading the article with the feeling that it doesn't offer anything new.