Medium access control priority mechanism for a DQMAN-based wireless network

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 495-497

  Alonso Zarate, J ^a   Gregoratti, D ^a   Giotis, P ^a   Verikoukis, C ^a   Alonso, L ^b  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Access minislots; DQCA; DQMAN; MAC; Priority

Indexed keywords

ACCESS MINISLOTS; DQCA; DQMAN; MAC; PRIORITY;

AD HOC NETWORKS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 68349141366     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2009.081502     Document Type: Article

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