On the impact of IEEE 802.11 MAC on traffic characteristics

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 189-203

  Tickoo, Omesh ^a   Sikdar, Biplab ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11; Medium access control (MAC); Traffic modeling

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; INTERARRIVAL TIME DISTRIBUTION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MULTIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAFFIC MODELING;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION);

EID: 0037330903     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2002.807346     Document Type: Article

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