PCF VS DCF: A performance comparison

Proceedings of the Annual Southeastern Symposium on System Theory

Volumn 36, Issue , 2004, Pages 215-219

  Rasheed, S A ^a   Masnoon, K ^a   Thanthry, N ^a   Pendse, R ^a  

^a Wichita State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel Access Methods; Multimedia over IP; Wireless Networks

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CHANNEL ACCESS METHODS; MULTIMEDIA OVER IP; POINT COORDINATE FUNCTION (PCF); WIRELESS NETWORKS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042702732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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