How well can the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN support quality of service?

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3084-3094

  Zhai, Hongqiang ^a,b   Chen, Xiang ^a,b,c,d   Fang, Yuguang ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^d Tau Beta Pi ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11; Protocol capacity; Quality of service (QoS); Wireless local area networks (WLANs)

Indexed keywords

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); PACKET LOSS RATE; PROTOCOL CAPACITY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 29144503071     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2005.857994     Document Type: Article

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