Soft-TDMAC: A software TDMA-based MAC over commodity 802.11 hardware

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1836-1844

  Djukic, Petar ^a   Mohapatra, Prasant ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11; Software TDMA MAC; Wireless mesh networks

Indexed keywords

802.11; CHANNEL CONDITIONS; END TO END DELAY; MAC PROTOCOL; MULTIHOP; MULTIHOP NETWORKS; OUT-OF-BAND; SOFTWARE TDMA MAC; SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISMS; TDMA SLOTS; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; TRANSMISSIONS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 70349668669     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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