An efficient IEEE 802.11 ESS mesh network supporting quality-of-service

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2005-2016

  Zhao, Rui ^a,b   Walke, Bernhard ^a,b   Hiertz, Guido R ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11 extended service set (ESS) mesh network; Mesh distributed coordination function (MDCF); Multihop relaying; Quality of service (QoS)

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED SERVICE SET (ESS) MESH NETWORK; LEGACY STATIONS; MESH DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION (MDCF); MULTIHOP RELAYING;

BANDWIDTH; CHANNEL CAPACITY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 33750837147     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2006.881635     Document Type: Article

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