Performance evaluation of a fair backoff algorithm for IEEE 802.11 DFWMAC

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 48-57

  Fang, Zuyuan ^a   Bensaou, Brahim ^a   Wang, Yu ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Ad hoc networks; Backoff procedure; Fairness; IEEE 802.11; Maxmin fairness; Medium access control; Performance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FEEDBACK CONTROL; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

AD-HOC NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED FOUNDATION WIRELESS MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; FAIR BACKOFF ALGORITHM; FAIRNESS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037984506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/513806.513807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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