Getting the most of WiFi mesh networks with 802.16 mesh emulation

International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 461-475

  Djukic, Petar ^a,b   Valaee, Shahrokh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11 real time scheduling; Distributed coordination function; MAC; Mesh coordination function; Time division multiple access

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

802.11 REAL-TIME SCHEDULING; 802.11A; BROADCAST PACKETS; COORDINATION FUNCTIONS; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION; EFFICIENT; EMBEDDING; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MAC; MESH COORDINATION FUNCTION; MESH NETWORKS; MULTIHOP; NEW SYSTEMS; NS2 SIMULATIONS; SOFTWARE CHANGES; SOFTWARE PATCHES; WIFI MESH NETWORKS; WIFI TECHNOLOGIES; WIRELESS ACCESSES; WIRELESS CHANNELS; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 54349089685     PISSN: 17445760     EISSN: 17445779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17445760801945367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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