Measurements of a wireless link in an industrial environment using an IEEE 802.11-compliant physical layer

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1265-1282

  Willig, Andreas ^a   Kubisch, Martin ^a   Hoene, Christian ^a   Wolisz, Adam ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER FOKUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN); Industrial environment; Medium Access Control (MAC) design; Stochastic bit error models; Wireless error measurements

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MODEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC);

RADIO LINKS;

EID: 0036902837     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2002.804974     Document Type: Article

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