Peeling the 802.11 onion: Separating congestion from physical per

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 33-39

  Khan, Malik Ahmad Yar ^a   Veitch, Darryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Congestion; Cross layer design; IEEE802.11; Measurement; Packet error rate; Passive monitoring

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION; CROSS LAYER DESIGN; IEEE802.11; MEASUREMENT; PACKET ERROR RATE; PASSIVE MONITORING;

INTERNET; MONITORING; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; TEST FACILITIES;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 60349083405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1410077.1410085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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