An analytical model for the capacity estimation of combined VoIP and TCP file transfers over EDCA in an IEEE 802.11e WLAN

IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service, IWQoS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 178-187

  Harsha, Sri ^a   Kumar, Anurag ^a   Sharma, Vinod ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CONTROLLED FILE DOWNLOADS; ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED CHANNEL ACCESS (EDCA); MARKOV RENEWAL PROCESSES;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 34250660953     PISSN: 1548615X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWQOS.2006.250466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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