Experimental evaluation of TCP performance and fairness in an 802.11e test-bed

Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Workshops: Conference on Computer Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 17-22

  Ng, Anthony C H ^a   Malone, David ^a   Leith, Douglas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

802.11; 802.11e; Fairness; TCP; Test bed

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; STANDARDS;

802.11; 802.11E; FAIRNESS; TCP; TEST-BED;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 29244462510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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