Unified Link Layer API: A generic and open API to manage wireless media access

Computer Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 962-979

  Sooriyabandara, Mahesh ^a   Farnham, Tim ^a   Efthymiou, Costas ^a   Wellens, Matthias ^b   Riihijärvi, Janne ^b   Mähönen, Petri ^b   Gefflaut, Alain ^c   Galache, José Antonio ^d   Melpignano, Diego ^e   van Rooijen, Arthur ^f  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^e STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^f MATERNA Information and Communications   (Germany)

Author keywords

API; Link layer abstraction; Wireless applications

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; QUERY PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

LINK LAYER ABSTRACTION; OBJECT ORIENTED SERVICE ABSTRACTIONS; WIRELESS API; WIRELESS APPLICATIONS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 40249088268     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2007.12.025     Document Type: Article

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