A Self-Adaptive Protocol for Broadcast LAN's with Variable Packet Length

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 72-74

  Papadimitriou, Georgios I ^a   Pallas, Georgios D ^a   Pomportsis, Andreas S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Broadcast LANs; Bursty traffic; Learning automata; Time division multiple access (TDMA); Variable packet length

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK COMPONENTS; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; SYNCHRONIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

BROADCAST LAN; BURSTY TRAFFIC; LEARNING AUTOMATA; VARIABLE PACKET LENGTH;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0742290163     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2003.822504     Document Type: Article

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