IdeS, a secreted cysteine protease of the important human pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes, interferes with phagocytic killing by specifically cleaving the heavy chain of immunoglobulin G (IgG). Two allelic variants of the enzyme have been described, the IgG-specific endopeptidase, IdeS (or Mac-1) and Mac-2, a protein with only weak IgG endopeptidase activity, which has been suggested to interfe...

Considering traditional MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks cannot provide service differentiation for different traffic classes, we propose a Self-adaption QoS-aware MAC protocol (SQ-MAC). The protocol can provide collision-free time slots for nodes, and take different contention window size for different traffic classes. It can also introduce virtual multiqueue and relatively fair sche...

This paper describes the designs of a saturating adder, multiplier, single MAC unit, and dual MAC unit with one cycle latencies. The dual MAC unit can perform two saturating MAC operations in parallel and accumulate the results with saturation. Specialized saturation logic ensures that the output of the dual MAC unit is identical to the result of the operations performed serially with saturatio...

The Mobile adhoc network (MANET), is a collection of mobile wireless nodes that self-organize without the aid of centralized control or any preexisting infrastructure. This paper presents the effect of MAC protocols (MAC 802.11, MAC/TDMA) on various routing protocols in order to choose the best routing protocol and MAC protocol to enhance the performance. The simulation compared three adhoc rou...

This paper reviews medium access control (MAC), an enabling technology in wireless sensor networks. MAC protocols control how sensors access a shared radio channel to communicate with neighbors. Battery-powered wireless sensor networks with many nearby nodes challenge traditional MAC design. This paper discusses design trade-offs with an emphasis on energy efficiency. It classifies existing MAC...