A bidirectional multi-channel MAC protocol for improving TCP performance on multihop wireless ad hoc networks

ACM MSWiM 2004 - Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 301-310

  Kuang, Tianbo ^a   Williamson, Carey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks; Ns 2; Simulation; TCP Performance

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW CONTROL; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MULTIHOP WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS; NS-2; TCP PERFORMANCE;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 27644565351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1023663.1023717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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