Distributed access time control for per-station fairness in infrastructure WLANs

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E89-B, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2572-2579

  Kim, Dong Young ^a   Park, Eun Chan ^a   Choi, Chong Ho ^b  

^a SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fairness; TCP; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISTRIBUTED ACCESS TIME CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION (DCF); FAIRNESS; TCP; WIRELESS LAN;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 33748784853     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.9.2572     Document Type: Article

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