TCP fairness issues in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

Computer Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2150-2161

  Wu, Qian ^a   Gong, Mingwei ^a   Williamson, Carey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11 WLAN; ns 2; TCP fairness

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

IEEE 802.11 WLAN; NS-2 NETWORK SIMULATOR; TCP FAIRNESS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 44549086935     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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