DualMAC: A soft handoff mechanism for real-time communications in secured WLANs

Computer Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1785-1793

  Tsao, Shiao Li ^a   Lo, Pang Hsiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Handoff; Mobility management; Real time communication; Voice over IP (VoIP) over WLAN (VoWLAN); Wireless LAN (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; INTERNET; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; PACKET LOSS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HANDOFF LATENCY; MOBILITY MANAGEMENT; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION; VOICE OVER IP (VOIP) OVER WLAN (VOWLAN);

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 34247482832     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2007.02.009     Document Type: Article

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