Fairness analysis of IEEE 802.11 multirate wireless LANs

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 3073-3088

  Babu, A V ^a   Jacob, Lillykutty ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT   (India)

Author keywords

Multirate wireless local area networks (WLANs); Performance analysis; Proportional fairness; Throughput based fairness; Time based fairness

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EQUAL-SIZED FRAMES; JAIN'S FAIRNESS INDEX; MULTIPLE DATA RATES; THROUGHPUT-BASED FAIRNESS; TIME-BASED FAIRNESS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 35148815261     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.898397     Document Type: Article

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