Aggregation with fragment retransmission for very high-speed WLANs

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 591-604

  Li, Tianji ^a   Ni, Qiang ^a,b   Malone, David ^a   Leith, Douglas ^a   Xiao, Yang ^c   Turletti, Thierry ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Alabama   (United States)

^d INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.11n; Medium access control (MAC); Wireless LAN (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

802.11N; AGGREGATION SCHEMES; ANALYTIC MODELS; DELAY PERFORMANCE; FRAGMENT SIZES; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; HIGH EFFICIENCIES; HIGH-SPEED; IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.11N; MAC LAYERS; MAXIMUM THROUGH-PUT; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYERS; NOISY CHANNELS; NS-2 SIMULATORS; PHYSICAL LAYERS; REALISTIC APPLICATIONS; RETRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION DELAYS; TRANSMISSION OPPORTUNITIES; WIRELESS LAN (WLAN); WORKING GROUPS;

DIGITAL TELEVISION; INTERNET TELEPHONY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 62949201726     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2009.2014654     Document Type: Article

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