Adjustment mechanism for the IEEE 802.11 contention window: An efficient bandwidth sharing scheme

Computer Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2686-2695

  Chetoui, Yassine ^a   Bouabdallah, Nizar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERSAILLES   (France)

^b CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

802.11 anomaly; Analytical models and simulations results; Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) algorithm; Fair bandwidth sharing; Multiple Backoff Windows DCF MB; Network throughput increase

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION (DCF) ALGORITHM; FAIR BANDWIDTH SHARING; MULTIPLE BACKOFF WINDOWS; NETWORK THROUGHPUT INCREASE;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 34548396274     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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