CoopMAC: A cooperative MAC for wireless LANs

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 340-353

  Liu, Pei ^a   Tao, Zhifeng ^b   Narayanan, Sathya ^c   Korakis, Thanasis ^a   Panwar, Shivendra S ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Panasonic Corporation of North America   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridges; Cooperative networking; Cross layer design; IEEE 802.11; Medium access control; Multi rate; Protocol design and analysis; Rate adaptation

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE NETWORKING; CROSSLAYER DESIGN; PROTOCOL DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; RATE ADAPTATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO BROADCASTING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 33847749444     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2007.070210     Document Type: Article

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