Reasoning about communication latencies in real WLANs

IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 187-194

  Cena, Gianluca ^a   Bertolotti, Ivan Cibrario ^a   Valenzano, Adriano ^a   Zunino, Claudio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; BEACON FRAMES; COMMUNICATION LATENCIES; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCES; FRAME TRANSMISSIONS; INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; MEDIUM ACCESSES; RESPONSE TIMES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

FACTORY AUTOMATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 47849095211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EFTA.2007.4416770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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