Cross layer design for the IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Joint rate control and packet scheduling

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2732-2740

  Qiuyan, Xia ^a,b   Xing, Jin ^a,b   Hamdi, Mounir ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cross layer design; IEEE 802.11; Multiuser diversity; Rate control; Weighted fair scheduling; WLAN

Indexed keywords

CROSS LAYER DESIGN; IEEE 802.11; MULTIUSER DIVERSITY; WEIGHTED FAIR SCHEDULING;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; PACKET NETWORKS; SCHEDULING;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 34547428350     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.06019     Document Type: Article

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