A multi-AP architecture for high-density WLANs: Protocol design and experimental evaluation

2008 5th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 28-36

  Zhu, Yanfeng ^a   Niu, Zhisheng ^a   Zhang, Qian ^b   Tan, Bo ^a   Zhou, Zhi ^a   Zhu, Jing ^c  

^a TSINGHUA NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AD-HOC COMMUNICATIONS; FRAME LOSSES; THROUGHPUT GAIN; TRAFFIC DISTRIBUTIONS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; CIVIL AVIATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; MAPS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; STANDARDS; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 51749115759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAHCN.2008.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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