Multi-sender diversity and its application in the uplink of IEEE 802.11 WLANs

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 976-978

  Hahm, Seong Il ^a   Lee, Jong Won ^b   Kim, Chong Kwon ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Handong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Distributed opportunistic scheduling; IEEE 802.11 WLAN; Multi sender diversity; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

CHANNEL FLUCTUATION; DISTRIBUTED OPPORTUNISTIC SCHEDULING; MULTI-SENDER DIVERSITY;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 38149091451     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2007.071337     Document Type: Article

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