SoftMAC: Layer 2.5 collaborative MAC for multimedia support in multihop wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-25

  Wu, Haitao ^a,b   Liu, Yunxin ^a,b,c   Zhang, Qian ^a,d   Zhang, Zhi Li ^a,e  

^a IEEE   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Layer 2.5; Media access control (MAC); Multimedia; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

DATA PACKET TRANSMISSION; MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); MULTIHOP WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS NODES;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA TRANSFER; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 33845624604     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.250668     Document Type: Article

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