Supporting QoS in IEEE 802.11e wireless LANs

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2217-2227

  Chen, Xiang ^a,b   Zhai, Hongqiang ^a,c   Tian, Xuejun ^d   Fang, Yuguang ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d AICHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

802.11e; QoS; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL UTILIZATION; ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED CHANNEL ACCESS (EDCA); REAL TIME TRAFFIC; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 33748592851     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2006.1687738     Document Type: Article

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