Massive machine-type communications in 5g: physical and MAC-layer solutions [PDF]
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2016 MTC are expected to play an essential role within future 5G systems. In the FP7 project METIS, MTC has been further classified into mMTC and uMTC. While mMTC is about wireless connectivity to tens of billions of machinetype terminals, uMTC is about ...
C. Bockelmann +7 more
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MAC Protocols for Terahertz Communication: A Comprehensive Survey [PDF]
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2019 Terahertz communication is emerging as a future technology to support Terabits per second link with highlighting features as high throughput and negligible latency.
Saim Ghafoor +3 more
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An efficient scalable scheduling mac protocol for underwater sensor networks [PDF]
, 2018 Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs) utilise acoustic waves with comparatively lower loss and longer range than those of electromagnetic waves. However, energy remains a challenging issue in addition to long latency, high bit error rate, and limited ...
Alfouzan, Faisal +3 more
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Portability, compatibility and reuse of MAC protocols across different IoT radio platforms [PDF]
, 2019 To cope with the diversity of Internet of Things (loT) requirements, a large number of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols have been proposed in scientific literature, many of which are designed for specific application domains.
Bauwens, Jan +5 more
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PluralisMAC: a generic multi-MAC framework for heterogeneous, multiservice wireless networks, applied to smart containers [PDF]
, 2012 Developing energy-efficient MAC protocols for lightweight wireless systems has been a challenging task for decades because of the specific requirements of various applications and the varying environments in which wireless systems are deployed.
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Adaptive Duty Cycling MAC Protocols Using Closed-Loop Control for Wireless Sensor Networks [PDF]
, 2011 The fundamental design goal of wireless sensor MAC protocols is to minimize unnecessary power consumption of the sensor nodes, because of its stringent resource constraints and ultra-power limitation. In existing MAC protocols in wireless sensor networks
Kim, Jaehyun, Kim, Seoggyu, Lee, Jaiyong
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Evaluation of LoRa nodes for long-range communication
Nonlinear Engineering, 2022 The Internet of Things concept can be implemented using Long-range wireless access network protocol. The work in this article is done to implement LoRa terrestrial network which will be connected to a satellite in future.
Gupta Gunjan +2 more
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Structural basis of complement membrane attack complex formation [PDF]
, 2015 In response to complement activation, the membrane attack complex (MAC) assembles from fluid-phase proteins to form pores in lipid bilayers. MAC directly lyses pathogens by a ‘multi-hit’ mechanism; however, sublytic MAC pores on host cells activate ...
Bubeck, D +3 more
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Mitral Annular and Coronary Artery Calcification Are Associated with Mortality in HIV-Infected Individuals. [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundHIV infection increases cardiovascular risk. Coronary artery calcification (CAC) and mitral annular calcification (MAC) identify patients at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The purpose of this study was to examine the association between
Bolger, Ann F +7 more
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Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2020 A Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is a group of nodes connected via ad-hoc fashion for communicating with each other through wireless interface. The communication among the nodes in such network take place by using multi-hop in the absence of fixed ...
Iqtidar Ali +4 more
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