Performance modelling and measurements of TCP transfer throughput in 802.11-based WLANs

ACM MSWiM 2006 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 4-11

  Bruno, Raffaele ^a   Conti, Marco ^a   Gregori, Enrico ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

802.11 MAC protocol; Markov chain; Performance modelling; TCP; Traffic measurements

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA TRANSFER; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MARKOV PROCESSES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

802.11 MAC PROTOCOL; PERFORMANCE MODELING; TRAFFIC MEASUREMENTS; WIRELESS STATIONS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750915616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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