Throughput enhancement through dynamic fragmentation in wireless LANs

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1415-1425

  Kim, Byung Seo ^a   Fang, Yuguang ^b   Wong, Tan F ^b   Kwon, Younggoo ^c  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; MAC; Rate adaptive MAC protocol; Wireless local area network (LAN)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FRAGMENTATION; MAC PROTOCOL; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (LAN);

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 24644505194     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2005.851361     Document Type: Article

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