Performance impact of interlayer dependence in infrastructure WLANs

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 829-845

  Choi, Sunwoong ^a   Park, Kihong ^b   Kim, Chong Kwon ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Access schemes; Experimentation versus simulation; Physical layer diversity; TCP over WLAN performance; Wireless communication

Indexed keywords

ACCESS SCHEMES; DYNAMIC RATE SHIFTING; EXPERIMENTATION VERSUS SIMULATION; PHYSICAL LAYER DIVERSITY; TCP-OVER-WLAN PERFORMANCE;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 33746601452     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2006.102     Document Type: Article

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