Rate avalanche: Effects on the performance of multi-rate 802.11 wireless networks

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 487-503

  Zhang, Liqiang ^a   Cheng, Yu Jen ^a   Zhou, Xiaobo ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Colorado Springs   (United States)

Author keywords

Media access control; Rate adaptation; Wireless local area networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SNOW; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

802.11 NETWORKS; 802.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS; 802.11 WLANS; AVALANCHE EFFECTS; CHANNEL CONTENTIONS; CHANNEL PROPAGATION; COLLISION RATES; DATE RATES; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; HIDDEN NODES; LOSS DIFFERENTIATIONS; MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL; MULTI RATES; MULTIPLE TRANSMISSIONS; RATE ADAPTATION; RETRANSMISSIONS; RTS/CTS; TRANSMISSION RATES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 58849125255     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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