Cross-layer analysis of rate adaptation, DCF and TCP in multi-rate WLANs

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1055-1063

  Choi, Jaehyuk ^a   Park, Kihong ^b   Kim, Chong Kwon ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INTERNET; MARKOV PROCESSES; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CROSS LAYER INTERACTIONS; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTIONS (DCF); PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 34548312523     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2007.127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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