A rate adaptive multicast protocol for providing MAC layer reliability in WLANs

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E89-B, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2733-2740

  Basalamah, Anas ^a   Sugimoto, Hiroki ^a   Sato, Takuro ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multicast; Rate adaptation; Reliability; WLAN

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MODULATION; MULTICASTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

ADAPTIVE MULTICAST PROTOCOL; CHANNEL CONDITIONS; DATA RATES; FEEDBACK MESSAGES; MODULATION TECHNIQUES;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750049056     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.10.2733     Document Type: Article

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