A reservation-based enhancement of IEEE 802.11 DCF protocol

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E90-B, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 538-547

  Shirazi, Mehdad N ^a   Shagdar, Oyunchimeg ^b   Tang, Suhua ^b   Nozaki, Masanori ^c   Kado, Youiti ^c   Zhang, Bing ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

802.11 WLAN; DCF; Fairness; Reservation based MAC

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

802.11 WLAN; CHANNEL UTILIZATION; RESERVATION-BASED MAC;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 33947103124     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.3.538     Document Type: Article

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