Dynamic contention window control mechanism to achieve fairness between uplink and downlink flows in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3517-3525

  Abeysekera, B A Hirantha Sithira ^a,b   Matsuda, Takahiro ^a,b   Takine, Tetsuva ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contention window; Distributed Coordination Function (DCF); Dynamic control; Fairness; Wireless local area networks

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; STANDARDS; WINDOWS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACCESS POINTS; CONTENTION WINDOW; CONTENTION WINDOW SIZE; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION (DCF); DOWNLINK FLOWS; DYNAMIC CONTENTION WINDOW CONTROL; DYNAMIC CONTROL; FAIRNESS; IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.11 MAC PROTOCOLS; MAC PROTOCOLS; PACKET RATE; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; TCP FLOWS; WIRELESS BANDWIDTH; WIRELESS LANS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; WIRELESS TERMINALS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 52349112872     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.070304     Document Type: Article

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