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[6] Improving throughput through spatial diversity in wireless mesh networks: A PCA-based approach, H. Lim, C. Lim, and J. C. Hou, Technical Report, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Power control, rate control, phsical carrier sense tuning, channel diversity. Power control [7] Analysis of a Cone-Based Distributed Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Multi-hop Networks, L. Li, J. Halpern, V. Bahl, Y. Wang, and R. Wattenhofer, ACM PODC, 2001. [8] Design and analysis of a MST-based distributed topology control algorithm for wireless ad-hoc networks,'' N. Li, J. C. Hou and L. Sha, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 1195--1207, May 2005. [9] Localized topology control algorithms for heterogeneous wireless networks, N. Li and J. C. Hou, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, to appear. [10] FLSS: a Fault-tolerant Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Networks, N. Li and J. Hou, ACM MobiCom, 2004. [11] Does Topology Control Reduce Interference?, M. Burkhart, P.v. Rickenbach, R. Wattenhofer, and A. Zollinger, ACM MobiHoc, 2004 [12] On the critical total power for asymptotic k-connectivity in wireless networks, H. Zhang and J. C. Hou, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, March 2005. ---------- Phyisical carrier sense [13] On the Physical Carrier Sense in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, X. Yang and N. H. Vaidya, IEEE INFOCOM, 2005 [14] Understanding the Real-World Performance of Carrier Sense, K. Jamieson, B. Hull, A. Miu, and H. Balakrishnan, ACM SIGCOMM E-WIND Workshop, 2005 ----------- Rate control [15] A Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, G. Holland, N. H. Vaidya, and P. Bahl, ACM MobiCom, 2001 [16] Self Management in Chaotic Wireless Deployments, A. Akella, G. Judd, P. Steenkiste, and S. Seshan, ACM MobiCom, 2005 [17] Improved Loss Resilience with Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless Networks , A. Miu, H. Balakrishnan, and C. E. Koksa, ACM Mobicom, 2005. [18] Idle Sense: An Optimal Access Method for High Throughput and Fairness in Rate Diverse Wireless LANs, M. Heusse, F. Rousseau, R. Guillier, and A. Duda, ACM SIGCOMM, 2005 --------- Channel diversity [19] Multi-Channel MAC for Ad Hoc Networks: Handling Multi-Channel Hidden Terminals Using a Single Transceiver, J. So and N. Vaidya, ACM MobiHoc, 2004 [20] SSCH: Slotted Seeded Channel Hopping for Capacity Improvement in IEEE 802.11 Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks, V. Bahl, R. Chandra, and J. Dunagan, ACM MobiCom, September 2004. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Modeling of medium access control [20] Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function, G. Bianchi, IEEE JSAC, vol.18, no.3, 2000 [21] F. Cal, M. 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De Couto, D. Aguayo, J. Bicket, and R. Morris, ACM MobiCom, 2003 [33] Opportunistic Routing in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, S. Biswas and R. Morris, ACM SIGCOMM, 2005 [34] Comparison of Routing Metrics for Static Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, Richard Draves, Jitendra Padhye, and Brian Zill, ACM SIGCOMM, 2004 [35] Routing in Multi-Radio, Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks, R. Draves, J. Padhye, and B. Zill, ACM MobiCom, 2004 Joint Channel Assignment and [36] Joint Channel Assignment and Routing for Throughput Optimization in Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks, M. Alicherry, R. Bhatia, and Li Li, ACM MobiCom 2005. [36] Routing for Throughput Optimization in Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks, M. Alicherry, R. Bhatia, and Li Li, ACM MobiCom 2005 [37] Impact of Interference on Multi-hop Wireless Network Performance, K. Jain, J. Padhye, V. N. Padmanabhan, and L. Qiu, ACM MobiCom 2003 [38] Architecture and Algorithms for an IEEE 802.11-based Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Network, Ashish Raniwala and Tzi-cker Chiueh, IEEE INFOCOM, 2005 [39] Link layer salvaging for making routing progress in mobile ad hoc networks, C. Yu, K. G. Shin, and L. Song, ACM Mobihoc 2005. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Capacity analysis [40] P. Gupta and P. R. Kumar, The capacity of wireless networks, IEEE Transactions and Information Theory, March 2000. [41] Capacity of multi-channel wireless networks: impact of number of channels and interfaces, P. Kyasanur and N. H. Vaidya, ACM Mobicom 2005. [42] Capacity of power constrained ad-hoc networks, R. Negi and A. Rajeswaran, Proc. of IEEE Infocom 2004, March 2004. [43] Capacity of wireless ad-hoc networks under ultra wide band with power constraints, H. Zhang and J. C. Hou, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, March 2005. 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