Experimental assessment of the backoff behavior of commercial IEEE 802.11b network cards

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1181-1189

  Bianchi, G ^a   Di Stefano, A ^b   Giaconia, C ^b   Scalia, L ^b   Terrazzino, G ^b   Tinnirello, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

LOW LEVEL BACKOFF DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENTS; NETWORK CARDS; TRAFFIC GENERATORS; WINDOW SIZE;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 34548319693     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2007.141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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