Throughput analysis of IEEE 802.11 WLANs with Automatic Rate Fallback in a lossy channel

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 689-693

  Yun, Ji Hoon ^a  

^a SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

802.11; ARF; Rate adaptation

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION COMPENSATION; FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; STANDARDS;

802.11; ARF; AUTOMATIC RATE FALLBACKS; BACKOFF MECHANISMS; DISCRETE-TIME MARKOV CHAINS; IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.11 DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTIONS; LOSSY CHANNELS; MARKOV CHAINS; OVERALL MODELS; RATE ADAPTATION; THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS; THROUGHPUT MODELS; TWO-STEP APPROACHES;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 61349097997     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.080669     Document Type: Article

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