A survey of QoS enhancements for IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 547-566

  Ni, Qiang ^a,b   Romdhani, Lamia ^a   Turletti, Thierry ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Distributed coordination function (DCF); Hybrid coordination function (HCF); IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.11e; Medium access control (MAC); Point coordination function (PCF); Quality of service (QoS)

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION (DCF); HYBRID COORDINATION FUNCTION (HCF); IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.11E; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); POINT COORDINATION FUNCTION (PCF);

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INTERNET; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 4143140343     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.196     Document Type: Article

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