Modeling the 802.11 distributed coordination function in non-saturated conditions

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 715-717

  Duffy, Ken ^a   Malone, David ^a   Leith, Douglas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11 MAC; Non saturated traffic; Performance evaluation; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

NON-SATURATED TRAFFIC; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 27644521623     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2005.1496592     Document Type: Article

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