Contention-based traffic priority MAC protocols in wireless body area networks: A thematic review
Egyptian Informatics Journal, 2023 Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) healthcare application is a group of heterogeneous-natured Bio-Medical Sensor Nodes (BMSNs) used to sense and monitor a patient’s vital signs, in the long run, under natural physiological conditions, without affecting ...
Farhan Masud +5 more
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Uncommon/rare oncogenic drivers in non‐small cell lung cancer: Consensus and contention
Medicine Advances, 2023 The importance of uncommon/rare oncogenic drivers in non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was underscored during the 20th China Lung Cancer Summit. These drivers, while present in a significant proportion of NSCLC patients, remain a challenge for diagnosis
Yi‐Long Wu +75 more
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Multi-Round Contention in Wireless LANs with Multipacket Reception [PDF]
, 2010 Multi-packet reception (MPR) has been recognized as a powerful capacity-enhancement technique for random-access wireless local area networks (WLANs). As is common with all random access protocols, the wireless channel is often under-utilized in MPR WLANs.
Jun, Ying, Zhang
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Directional Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocols in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: A Survey
Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, 2015 This survey paper presents the state-of-the-art directional medium access control (MAC) protocols in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks (WAHSNs). The key benefits of directional antennas over omni-directional antennas are longer communication range ...
David Tung Chong Wong +2 more
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Actors and repertoires of contention [PDF]
, 2016 Industrial mining is currently one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy, particularly in the Global South. The present mining boom is, however, accompanied by numerous conflicts: conflicts over labour relations, over territorial control ...
Engels, Bettina
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Contention-aware performance monitoring counter support for real-time MPSoCs [PDF]
, 2016 Tasks running in MPSoCs experience contention delays when accessing MPSoC’s shared resources, complicating task timing analysis and deriving execution time bounds.
Abella Ferrer, Jaume +7 more
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Aggregate Interference Modeling in Cognitive Radio Networks with Power and Contention Control [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, we present an interference model for cognitive radio (CR) networks employing power control, contention control or hybrid power/contention control schemes.
Chen, Zengmao +8 more
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What happens in-between mobilizations? Building and organizing contentious politics at the University of Tehran (2007-2017) [PDF]
, 2020 This article investigates contentious politics in authoritarian contexts by looking at the case study of student activism in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Rivetti, Paola
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Democracy as pothole repair: Civic applications and cyber-empowerment in Russia
Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2014 The article examines the phenomenon of so-called civic apps, applications for smartphones and web largely used by Russian social movements in their fight against corruption, roads in poor condition, street faults and other public problems.
Ksenia Ermoshina
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IEEE Access, 2023 The growing interest in new applications involving co-located heterogeneous requirements, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) paradigm, poses unprecedented challenges to the uplink wireless transmissions.
Giampaolo Cuozzo +2 more
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