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Article: New wireless communications findings from University of Waterloo published.(Report)
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- Network Weekly News
- Article date:
- September 14, 2009
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According to a study from Waterloo, Canada, "Ultra-wideband (UWB) communication is a promising enabling technology for future broadband wireless services. A simple, scalable, distributed, efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is of critical importance to utilize the large bandwidth UWB channels and enable numerous new applications and services cost-effectively."
"In this paper, by investigating the characteristics of UWB communications, we propose a Distributed, EXclusive region (DEX) based MAC protocol. The proposed DEX protocol capitalizes on the spatial multiplexing gain of UWB networks by reserving exclusive regions (ER) surrounding the sender and ...