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Forward Focus: Medium Access Control for Ad hoc Networks

The wireless medium must be effectively shared in an ad hoc network. The multihop nature of the network demands it, with packets often requiring several transmissions in order to reach their destination. This paper describes a mechanism for improving the IEEE 802.11 MAC specifically for ad hoc networks. The Forward Focus mechanism uses the forwarding nature itself to improve the efficiency and ...

Moving survivorship care plans forward: focus on care coordination

After completing treatment for cancer, the coordination of oncology and primary care presents a challenge for cancer survivors. Many survivors need continued oncology follow-up, and all survivors require primary care. Coordinating the shared care of a cancer survivor, or facilitating an informed handoff from oncology to primary care, is essential for cancer survivors. Survivorship care plans ar...

Forward focus: using routing information to improve medium access control in ad hoc networks

Multihop packet forwarding is a vital process in an ad hoc network. All ad hoc networking protocols, but particularly routing and medium access control protocols, must work together in order for the network to be successful. However, current MAC protocols such as IEEE 802.11 do not consider this multihop nature at all. This work develops a modification to 802.11 that focuses on forwarding packe...

Looking forward to 20/20: a focus on the epidemiology of eye diseases.

The encouraging scenario of international efforts to eliminate preventable and avoidable blindness is the legacy of public health ophthalmology in the 20th century. With active programs currently in place or beginning for the major cause of blindness in childhood and two of the leading infectious causes of blindness, it is natural that research in eye disease will shift even more heavily toward...

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