Performance enhancement of multirate IEEE 802.11 WLANs with geographically scattered stations

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 906-919

  Yang, Duck Yong ^b   Lee, Tae Jin ^a,c   Jang, Kyunghun ^d   Chang, Jin Bong ^d   Choi, Sunghyun ^a,e  

^a LG Electronics Institute of Technolog ^*

^b LG Electronics Inc   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^d Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Backoff algorithm; CSMA CA; DCF; IEEE 802.11a b g; Link adaptation; Performance anomaly; Throughput

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARRIER COMMUNICATION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BACKOFF ALGORITHM; BACKOFF WINDOW; CSMA/CA; DCF; IEEE 802.11A/B/G; LINK ADAPTATION; PERFORMANCE ANOMALY; TRANSMISSION RATES;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 33746631822     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2006.101     Document Type: Article

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