All bits are not equal - A study of IEEE 802.11 communication bit errors

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1602-1610

  Han, Bo ^a   Ji, Lusheng ^b   Lee, Seungjoon ^b   Bhattacharjee, Bobby ^a   Miller, Robert R ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit error patterns; Calibration; IEEE 802.11; Measurement study; Sub frame bit errors

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR PATTERNS; BIT ERROR PROBABILITY; BIT-ERRORS; CHANNEL CONDITIONS; ERROR PATTERNS; HARDWARE PLATFORM; IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.11 WIRELESS LAN; IEEE 802.11S; IN-CHANNELS; LEVEL MECHANISM; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MEASUREMENT STUDY; NETWORK CODING; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RETRANSMISSIONS; SUB-FRAME; SUB-FRAME BIT ERRORS; TRANSMISSION ERROR; TRANSMISSION RATE ADAPTATION; WIRELESS LAN;

CALIBRATION; CHANNEL CODING; ERROR DETECTION; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STANDARDS; TRANSMISSIONS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 70349675409     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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