Improving throughput and fairness by reducing exposed and hidden nodes in 802.11 networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-49

  Jiang, Li Bin ^b   Liew, Soung Chang ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Exposed node problem; Hidden node problem; IEEE 802.11; Mathematical modeling; Performance evaluation; Protocols

Indexed keywords

EXPOSED NODE PROBLEM; HIDDEN NODE PROBLEM; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

AD HOC NETWORKS; ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 36549010430     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.1070     Document Type: Article

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