Multihoming of users to access points in WLANs: A population game perspective

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1207-1215

  Shakkottai, Srinivas ^a   Altman, Eitan ^b   Kumar, Anurag ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Game theory; IEEE 802.11 WLANs; Multihoming; Optimization; Population games

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; MULTIHOMING; POPULATION GAMES; POTENTIAL GAME MODELS;

GAME THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; USER INTERFACES;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 34547408741     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2007.070814     Document Type: Article

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