Performance evaluation of an adaptive backoff scheme for WLAN

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 867-879

  Pang, Qixiang ^a,b,c   Liew, Soung C ^a   Lee, Jack Y B ^a   Leung, Victor C M ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c 2356 Main Mall ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

CSMA CA; IEEE 802.11; Self adaptive contention window adjustment; WiFi; Wireless local area networks; WLAN

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WEB BROWSERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CSMA/CA; SELF-ADAPTIVE CONTENTION WINDOW ADJUSTMENT; WIFI; WLAN;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 13244296820     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.260     Document Type: Article

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