Payload length and rate adaptation for multimedia communications in wireless LANs

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 796-807

  Choudhury, Sayantan ^a,b   Gibson, Jerry D ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency selective fading; Multimedia communications; Payload adaptation; Performance evaluation; Rate adaptation

Indexed keywords

MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS; PACKET ERROR RATE; PAYLOAD LENGTHS;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FADING CHANNELS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THROUGHPUT;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 34249311037     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2007.070515     Document Type: Article

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