Achieving near maximum throughput in IEEE 802.11 WLANs with contention tone

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 658-660

  Tantra, Juki Wirawan ^a,b   Foh, Chuan Heng ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11; MAC protocol; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; DATA TRANSFER; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

BIT RATE; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) PROTOCOL;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 33947145557     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2006.1714536     Document Type: Article

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