Network coding and opportunistic routing are two recognized innovative ideas to improve
the performance of wireless networks by utilizing the broadcast nature of the wireless …

Vehicular communications refer to a wide range of networks adopted in environments
characterized by sparse connectivity, frequent network partitioning, intermittent connectivity …

Current data collection protocols for wireless sensor networks are mostly based on quasi-
static minimum-cost routing trees. We consider an alternative, highly-agile approach called …

The index coding problem has recently attracted a significant attention from the research
community due to its theoretical significance and applications in wireless ad hoc networks …

Recent studies show that high-power cross-technology interference is becoming a major
problem in today's 802.11 networks. Devices like baby monitors and cordless phones can …

Driven by both safety concerns and commercial interests, one of the key services offered by
vehicular networks is popular content distribution (PCD). The fundamental challenges to …

Diversity is an intrinsic property of wireless networks. Recent years have witnessed the
emergence of many distributed protocols like ExOR, MORE, SOAR, SOFT, and MIXIT that …

Over the past few years a range of new Media Access Control (MAC) protocols have been
proposed for wireless networks. This research has been driven by the observation that a …

Cooperative communication is a promising technique for future wireless networks, which
significantly improves link capacity and reliability by leveraging broadcast nature of wireless …

Backscatter communication, in which data is conveyed through reflecting excitation signals,
has been advocated as a promising green technology for Internet of Things (IoT). Existing …