Assessing link quality in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks: Which is the right metric?

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Vlavianos, Angelos ^a   Law, Lap Kong ^a   Broustis, Ioannis ^a   Krishnamurthy, Srikanth V ^a   Faloutsos, Michalis ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; IEEE 802.11 wireless networks; Interference; Measurements; Network topology; Testbed

Indexed keywords

DELIVERY RATIO; EXPERIMENTATION; FREQUENCY SELECTION; IEEE 802.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS; INTELLIGENT ROUTING; INTERFERENCE; LINK QUALITY; LOAD-BALANCING; MEASUREMENT-BASED STUDIES; MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATION; RELATIVE ACCURACY; SIGNAL TO INTERFERENCE PLUS NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS LINK;

BIT ERROR RATE; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; METRIC SYSTEM; PACKET NETWORKS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; STANDARDS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 69949174010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2008.4699837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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