A key challenge for enabling machine-to-machine (M2M) communications in long-term
evolution (LTE) networks is the intolerably low access efficiency in the presence of massive …

Internet-of-Things (IoT) aims to connect intelligent things to the Internet, enable thing-to-
everything communication, and sustainability sensing and control. However, the exponential …

For IEEE 802.11 networks with multiple basic service sets (BSSs), most studies have
focused on how to allocate different frequency sub-channels to BSSs for minimizing the co …

Aloha and Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) are two representative random-access
protocols. Despite their simplicity in concept, the performance analysis of Aloha and CSMA …

Recently, wireless body area networks (WBANs) have attracted significant consideration in
ubiquitous healthcare. A number of medium access control (MAC) protocols, primarily …

Different from the conventional packet-based random access schemes where each data
packet needs to contend for channel access, with connection-based random access, a …

In machine‐to‐machine (M2M) networks, the ability to access the radio channel requires a
rigid design of a medium access control (MAC) protocol. Here, an optimised hybrid MAC …

Body area networks (BAN) are at the forefront of technologies for long-term monitoring of
personal healthcare, which is intended be an effective strategy to address the aging …

In recent years, connection-based slotted-Aloha (CS-Aloha) has been proposed to improve
the performance of random access networks. In this protocol, each node attempts to send a …

With the emerging unlicensed spectrum sharing and Machine-to-Machine communications,
the coexistence performance of multiple devices with different access schemes operating at …