Choosing beacon periods to improve response times for wireless HTTP clients

MobiWac'04 - Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access Protocols

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 43-50

  Nath, Suman ^a   Anderson, Zachary ^a   Seshan, Srinivasan ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beacon periods; Wireless access

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HTTP; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; WEBSITES;

BEACON PERIOD; NETWORK INTERPHASE CARDS (NIC); ROUND-TRIP TIME (RTT); WIRELESS ACCESS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 15344340347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1023783.1023792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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