IEEE 802.11 protocol: design and performance evaluation of an adaptive backoff mechanism

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1774-1786

  Calì, Federico ^a   Conti, Marco ^a   Gregori, Enrico ^a  

^a ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOBILE COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

MULTIPLE ACCESS PROTOCOL; PROTOCOL CAPACITY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0034268810     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.872963     Document Type: Article

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