A Reservation-Based Enhancement of IEEE 802.11 DCF Protocol

Mehdad N. SHIRAZI†a) , Nonmember, Oyunchimeg SHAGDAR†† , Suhua TANG†† , Masanori NOZAKI††† ,
Youiti KADO††† , and Bing ZHANG† , Members

An Explanation for Unexpected 802.11 Outdoor Link-level Measurement Results

Giustiniano, D. Bianchi, G. Scalia, L. Tinnirello, I.
This is a hands-on paper. Very well written and interesting. It shows that the combination of atheros chipset and madwifi drivers present a weird effect because of the particular use of the diversity concept.

Performance Evaluation of R-ALOHA in Distributed Packet Radion Networks with Hard Real-Time Communications

Te-Kail Liu, John A. Silvester and Andreas Polydoros

They analyze R-Aloha, which is very similar to CSMA/ECA. And they also use markov chains, so the parallelisms arise. Nevertheless, since there is no reservation in CSMA/ECA, there are also some differences. Anyway, there is still many things I can learn and reuse in this paper. By the way, which is the difference between p[] and Pr{}?

Aloha Packet System with and without Slots and Capture

Lawrence G. Roberts

This paper is written using a typing machine. The author considers the capture effect for satellite communication.

Capture Effects of Wireless CSMA/CA Protocols in Rayleigh and Shadow Fading Channels

Jae Hyun Kim, Member, IEEE, and Jong Kyu Lee, Member, IEEE

The performance of CSMA/CA is computed, taking into account the capture effect. I was surprised that they also considered the case in which acks are ommitted.

IMS-controlled ethernet domains for networked services delinvery

D.Tolle, A.Plankl, G.Butscher

Using ethernet as a transport plane for IMS

Application Layer FEC in IPTV Services

M.Luby. T.Stockhammer, M.Watson

Forward Error Correction has many applications in IPTV distribution. I was thinking that it maybe also particularly useful for P2P live streaming.

Game Theory for Wireless Engineers

Allen MacKenzie, Luiz DaSilva

A superb book to get a flavor about what game theory is about.