The case for non-cooperative multihoming of users to access points in IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Shakkottai, Srinivas ^a   Altman, Eitan ^b   Kumar, Anurag ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; MOBILE AGENTS; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ACCESS POINTS; NON-COOPERATIVE MULTIHOMING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 39049151833     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2006.314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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