Impact of space-time block codes on 802.11 network throughput

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1029-1039

  Stamoulis, Anastasios ^a,b   Al Dhahir, Naofal ^a,c  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

80211; Network simulator (ns); Space time block codes (STBCs); Transmission control protocol (TCP); Wireless local area networks (LANs)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BLOCK CODES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECODING; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SIGNAL ENCODING; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

NETWORK SIMULATORS; SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES (STBC); TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP); WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

EID: 3042839210     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2003.816798     Document Type: Article

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