Scalability analysis of rate adaptation techniques in congested IEEE 802.11 networks: An ORBIT testbed comparative study

2007 IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WOWMOM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ramachandran, Kishore ^a   Kremo, Haris ^a   Gruteser, Marco ^a   Spasojević, Predrag ^a   Šeškar, Ivan ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; BIT ERROR RATE; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STANDARDS; THROUGHPUT;

ATHEROS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; FRAME ERRORS; IEEE 802.11 NETWORKS; MEDIA APPLICATIONS; NETWORK CAPACITIES; PHYSICAL LAYER CAPTURES; RADIO ENVIRONMENTS; RATE ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; RATE ADAPTATIONS; RATE SELECTIONS; ROBUST PERFORMANCES; RSSI MEASUREMENTS; RTS/CTS; SCALABILITY ANALYSES; SPI-RIT; STATIC ENVIRONMENTS; TESTBED;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 47749099262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WOWMOM.2007.4351717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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