Collision-aware design of rate adaptation for multi-rate 802.11 WLANs

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1366-1375

  Choi, Jaehyuk ^a   Na, Jongkeun ^b   Lim, Yeon Sup ^a   Park, Kihong ^c   Kim, Chong Kwon ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11; Adaptive threshold; Rate adaptation

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; FIRMWARE; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSOR NETWORKS; STANDARDS; STATE FEEDBACK; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS;

802.11; 802.11 MACS; 802.11 WLANS; ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD; COLLISION EFFECTS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; IEEE 802.11; INFRASTRUCTURE WLANS; NETWORK STATES; NETWORK STATUSES; RATE ADAPTATION; RATE ADAPTATION SCHEMES; RATE ADAPTATIONS; RTS/CTS; WIRELESS LANS;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 54249101712     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2008.081003     Document Type: Article

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