Experience with an implementation of the Idle Sense wireless access method

Proceedings of 2007 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 3rd International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Grunenberger, Yan ^a   Heusse, Martin ^a   Rousseau, Franck ^a   Duda, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

802.11; Access methods; Fairness; Wireless LANs

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL THEORY; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

802.11; 802.11 DCF; ACCESS METHODS; ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS; ANALYTICAL MODELING; COLLISION RATES; CONSTRAINED DEVICES; CONTROL PARAMETERS; DATA FRAMES; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTIONS; DIVISION OPERATIONS; FAIRNESS; FLOATING POINTS; HARDWARE PLATFORMS; HIGH PRECISIONS; MAC PROTOCOLS; NEW CONCEPTS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISONS; RESEARCH WORKS; WIRELESS ACCESS METHODS; WIRELESS LANS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 56749179317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1364654.1364685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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