On sustained QoS guarantees in operated IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1020-1033

  Nafaa, Abdelhamid ^a   Ksentini, Adlen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Cross layer QoS performance metrics guarantees; IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; LEAD; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

802.11E; ADMISSION CONTROL (AC); APPLICATION QOS; BACKOFF; CROSS LAYERING; DELAY SENSITIVE; DISTRIBUTED ADMISSION CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED FLOW; ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION (EDCF); IEEE 802.11 (STANDARDS); IEEE 802.11 MAC PROTOCOLS; NETWORK CONDITIONS; NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS; NETWORK UTILIZATION; PERCEIVED QOS; QOS (QUALITY OF SERVICE) GUARANTEE; QUEUE DYNAMICS; SIMULATION RESULTS; THROUGHPUT FAIRNESS; TRAFFIC CLASSES; TRAFFIC LOADS; WIRELESS LANS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 47249153134     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2007.70785     Document Type: Article

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