Meta-MAC protocols: automatic combination of MAC protocols to optimize performance for unknown conditions

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1670-1681

  Faragó, András ^a   Myers, Andrew D ^a   Syrotiuk, Violet R ^a   Záruba, Gergely V ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOL; MULTIACCESS COMMUNICATION;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0034266713     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.872955     Document Type: Article

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