A markovian framework for performance evaluation of IEEE 802.11

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1276-1285

  Foh, Chuan Heng ^a,b   Zukerman, Moshe ^a,c   Tantra, Juki Wirawan ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer network performance; IEEE 802.11; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE; DATA FRAME SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; ON/OFF ARRIVAL PROCESSES; PHASE-TYPE DISTRIBUTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 34247342834     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.348324     Document Type: Article

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