Efficient Design of WiMAX/802. 1 6 Mesh Networks. Jad El-Najjar, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2010 Broadband wireless networks are becoming increasingly popular due to their fast and inexpensive deployment and their capabilities of providing flexible and ubiquitous Internet access. While the majority of existing broadband wireless networks are still exclusively limited to single hop access, it i...

The application model for the energy consumption of a node as a function of its throughput in a wireless CSMA network. We first model a single-hop network, and then a multi-hop network. We show that operating the CSMA network at a high throughput is energy inefficient since unsuccessful carrier sensing attempts increase the energy consumption per transmitted bit. Operating the network at a low ...

Advances in low-power electronics design and wireless communication have enabled the development of low cost, low power micro-sensor nodes. These sensor nodes are capable of sensing, processing and forwarding which have many applications such as underwater networks. In underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) applications, sensors which are placed in underwater environments and predicted ena...

As diverse and data-heavy underwater applications emerge, demanding requirements are further imposed on underwater wireless communication systems. Future underwater wireless communication networks might consist of both mobile and stationary nodes which exchange data such as control, telemetry, speech, and video signals among themselves as well as a central node located at a ship or onshore. The...

In multi-hop wireless networks, users may compete for accessing a shared transmission medium. For transmission of packets the Medium Access Layer has to schedule the links carefully with minimum collisions. To achieve the maximal throughput the designing of scheduling algorithms is a challenging problem because of the complex interference constraints among different links. Many scheduling polic...

Random medium access control (MAC) plays a critical role in OFDMA wireless networks to support services with bursty traffic. However, the existing OFDMA random access protocols suffer from low efficiency due to the constraints in half-duplex communications. In this paper, the capability of full-duplex communications is leveraged to propose novel mechanisms such as full duplex carrier sensing, c...

(Under the direction of Dr. Wenye Wang). As various wireless networks evolves into the next generation to provide better services, a key technology, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), has emerged recently. The dynamic topology, multi-hop transmission, and the nature of wireless channels create many challenging research topics in the area of MANETs. Recently, there has been work on determining the...

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multi-carrier modulation technique which is very much popular in new wireless networks of IEEE standard, digital television, audio broadcasting and 4G mobile communications. The main benefit of OFDM over single-carrier schemes is its ability to cope with severe channel conditions without complex equalization filters. It has improved the qua...