A distributed end-to-end reservation protocol for IEEE 802.11-based wireless mesh networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2018-2026

  Carlson, Emma ^b   Prehofer, Christian ^c   Bettstetter, Christian ^a,d   Karl, Holger ^a,e   Wolisz, Adam ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carrier sense multiple access (CSMA); IEEE 802.11e; Medium access control (MAC); Mesh networks; Quality of service (QoS); Reservation mechanism

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; THROUGHPUT;

DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION (DGF); MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); MESH NETWORKS; RESERVATION MECHANISM;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750805936     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2006.881633     Document Type: Article

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