Unfair and inefficient share of wireless LAN resource among uplink and downlink data traffic and its solution

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E88-B, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1577-1584

  Fukuda, Yutaka ^a   Oie, Yuji ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Client server model; P2P model; Priority; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CLIENT-SERVER MODEL; P2P MODEL; PRIORITY; WIRELESS LANS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 24144453169     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.4.1577     Document Type: Article

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