Throughput and delay performance of IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) under saturation condition

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 136-145

  Huang, Ching Ling ^b,c   Liao, Wanjiun ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay; EDCA; IEEE 802.11e; Saturation performance; Throughput

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY INTER-FRAME SPACES (AIES); ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED CHANNEL ACCESS (EDCA); SATURATION PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; JITTER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 33947590655     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.04796     Document Type: Article

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