MAC protocol enhancements and a distributed scheduler for QoS guarantees over the IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 2410-2413

  Jacob, Lillykutty ^a   Qiang, Qiu ^a   Pillai, R Radhakrishna ^b   Prabhakaran, B ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

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

Author keywords

Fairness; IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol; QoS guarantees; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPECIFICATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULER; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 0036452250     PISSN: 07400551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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