Architecture and techniques for diagnosing faults in IEEE 802.11 infrastructure networks

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 30-44

  Adya, Atul ^a   Bahl, Paramvir ^a   Chandra, Ranveer ^b   Qiu, Lili ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Disconnected clients; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; IEEE 802.11; Infrastructure wireless networks; Rogue APs

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STANDARDS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DISCONNECTED CLIENTS; FAULT DETECTION; FAULT DIAGNOSIS; IEEE 802.11E; INFRASTRUCTURE WIRELESS NETWORKS; ROUGUE ACCESS POOINTS (AP);

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 11244291937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1023720.1023724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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