Evaluation of response times in industrial WLANs

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 191-201

  Cena, Gianluca ^b   Bertolotti, Ivan Cibrario ^a,b   Valenzano, Adriano ^b   Zunino, Claudio ^b  

^a IEEE

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication systems; Computer network performance; Real time systems; Wireless local area networks (WLANs)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

COMPUTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE INDICES;

RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

EID: 34547736927     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2007.903219     Document Type: Article

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