Study of the TCP upstream/downstream unfairness issue with per-flow queuing over infrastructure-mode WLANs

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 459-471

  Wu, Yi ^a   Niu, Zhisheng ^a   Zheng, Junli ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

802.11 DCF; Cross layer; Fairness; Wireless TCP

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; DATA TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUEUEING NETWORKS;

802.11 DCF; CROSS-LAYER; FAIRNESS; WIRELESS TCP;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 21244453877     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.303     Document Type: Article

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