Modeling path capacity in multi-hop IEEE 802.11 networks for QoS services

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 738-748

  Wang, Kun ^b   Yang, Fan ^a,c   Zhang, Qian ^a,d   Xu, Yinlong ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

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

Author keywords

802.11; Hidden terminal; Interference; Performance; QoS provision; Wireless multi hop

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TOPOLOGY;

802.11; HIDDEN TERMINAL; QOS PROVISION; WIRELESS MULTI-HOP;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847728220     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.05434     Document Type: Article

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