Using channel state dependent packet scheduling to improve TCP throughput over wireless LANs

Wireless Networks

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 91-102

  Bhagwat, Pravin ^a,b,c   Bhattacharya, Partha ^a,b   Krishna, Arvind ^a,c,d,e   Tripathi, Satish K ^b,f,g,h  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e Teachers College   (United States)

^f University of Maryland   (United States)

^g BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^h IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PACKET SWITCHING; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO LINKS;

CHANNEL STATE DEPENDENT PACKET (CSDP) SCHEDULING METHODS; FIRST IN FIRST OUT (FIFO) PACKET SCHEDULING;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0030643454     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019132612232     Document Type: Article

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