A two-phase loss differentiation algorithm for improving TFRC performance in IEEE 802.11 WLANs

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4164-4175

  Pack, Sangheon ^a,b   Shen, Xuemin ^a,c   Mark, Jon W ^a,c   Cai, Lin ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effective throughput; IEEE 802.11 WLANs; TCP friendly rate control; Two phase loss differentiation algorithm; WLAN link model

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION ALGORITHM; TCP-FRIENDLY RATE CONTROL (TFRC); TRANSMISSION ERRORS;

ALGORITHMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 36249013756     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.060289     Document Type: Article

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