Fixed point analysis of single cell IEEE 802.11e WLANs: Uniqueness and multistability

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1080-1093

  Ramaiyan, Venkatesh ^a   Kumar, Anurag ^a   Altman, Eitan ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Performance of wireless LANs; Saturation throughput analysis of EDCA; Short term unfairness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUEUEING THEORY; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOLUTIONS; STANDARDS; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ARBITRATION INTERFRAME SPACES; BACKOFF; FIXED POINT ANALYSES; FIXED POINTS; HOMOGENEOUS SYSTEMS; IEEE 802.11E; MULTIPLE QUEUES; MULTISTABILITY; NONHOMOGENEOUS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSES; PERFORMANCE OF WIRELESS LANS; SATURATION THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS OF EDCA; SATURATION THROUGHPUTS; SHORT TERM UNFAIRNESS; SHORT TERMS; SINGLE CELLS; TIME BEHAVIORS; VIRTUAL COLLISIONS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 54549104608     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2007.911429     Document Type: Article

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