Joint transmit power and physical carrier sensing adaptation based on loss differentiation for high density IEEE 802.11 WLAN

Computer Networks

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1703-1720

  Ma, Hui ^a   Zhu, Jing ^b   Roy, Sumit ^a   Shin, Soo Young ^c  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Contention window size; High density WLAN; IEEE 802.11; Loss differentiation; Physical carrier sensing; Transmit power control

Indexed keywords

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; OPTIMIZATION; PACKET LOSS; POWER CONTROL; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ADAPTATION; CONTENTION WINDOW SIZE; PHYSICAL CARRIER SENSING (PCS); TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 43649103124     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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