Improving quality of service and assuring fairness in WLAN access networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-350

  Park, Eun Chan ^a,b   Kim, Pong Young ^b   Choi, Chong Ho ^a,b   So, Jungmin ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Fairness; IEEE 802.11 WLAN; Quality of service; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL SHARING; FAIR QOS AGENT (FQA); WIRELESS CHANNELS; WLAN;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847693947     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.53     Document Type: Article

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