A distributed channel access scheme with guaranteed priority and enhanced fairness

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2114-2125

  Jiang, Hai ^a,b   Wang, Ping ^c   Zhuang, Weihua ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed channel access; IEEE 802.11e EDCA; Priority; Quality of service; Short term fairness

Indexed keywords

QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

DISTRIBUTED CHANNEL ACCESS; GUARANTEED PRIORITY; PRIORITY; SHORT-TERM FAIRNESS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 34547778420     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.05746     Document Type: Article

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