B-EDCA: A QoS mechanism for multimedia communications over heterogeneous 802.11/802.11e WLANs

Computer Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3905-3921

  Villalón, José ^a   Cuenca, Pedro ^a   Orozco Barbosa, Luis ^a   Garrido, Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN INFORMÁTICA DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

Author keywords

EDCA; Multimedia communications; Performance evaluation; QoS; Video quality

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; LEGACY SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EDCA; MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; QOS; VIDEO QUALITY;

STANDARDS;

EID: 54949149491     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.07.012     Document Type: Article

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