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Cooperative performance bounds of Wireless Local Area Networks
In a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), capacity gain and delay reduction play a crucial role in system performance. In this paper, we …
Rasool Sadeghi, João Paulo Barraca, Rui L. Aguiar
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Metrics for optimal relay selection in cooperative wireless networks
A key design issue in relay based cooperative wireless networks is the metrics used for relay selection. Internal operational …
Rasool Sadeghi, João Paulo Barraca, Rui L. Aguiar
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Characterization of Unplanned Metropolitan Wireless Networks
Mobile Internet penetration has grown steadily over the last few years. Although most of today’s users have access through their …
Filipe Dias, João Paulo Barraca, Diogo Gomes, Rui L. Aguiar
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FastM in WMN: A Fast Mobility Support Extension for Wireless Mesh Networks
In this paper we present a new extension to proactive routing protocols using a fast mobility extension, FastM, with the purpose of …
Luís Couto, João Paulo Barraca, Susana Sargento, Rui L. Aguiar
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FastM: Design and Evaluation of a Fast Mobility Mechanism for Wireless Mesh Networks
Although there is a large volume of work in the literature in terms of mobility approaches for Wireless Mesh Networks, usually these …
Luís Couto, João Paulo Barraca, Susana Sargento, Rui L. Aguiar
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An Architecture For Community Mesh Networking
The advances on wireless mesh networks are shifting the communications paradigm, where users can benefit from their cooperation to …
João Paulo Barraca, Pedro Fernandes, Susana Sargento, Rui Rocha
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Managing Community-aware Wireless Mesh Networks
Wireless Mesh Networks, due to their typical architecture and deployment, are able to respond to user expectations as no other …
João Paulo Barraca, Rui L. Aguiar
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Fast mobility in proactive routing protocols
This paper presents an innovative extension to routing protocols using a back-tracing technique to improve performance of handovers in …
A. Couto, João Paulo Barraca, S. Sargento, R. Aguiar
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Ontology-driven Framework for Community Networking Management
Wireless technologies present many benefits when used to deploy metropolitan networks. Resilience, cost, adaptability and …
João Paulo. Barraca, Rui L. Aguiar
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