Contention window adjustment for IEEE 802.11 WLANs: A control-theoretic approach

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 9, Issue , 2006, Pages 3923-3928

  Xia, Qiuyan ^a   Hamdi, Mounir ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

BINARY EXPONENTIAL BACKOFF (BEB); DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION (DCF);

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 42549103238     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2006.255694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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