Leveraging multi-AP diversity for transmission resilience in wireless networks: Architecture and performance analysis

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 5030-5040

  Zhu, Yanfeng ^a   Zhang, Qian ^b   Niu, Zhisheng ^a   Zhu, Jing ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Fairness; Wireless multi AP networks; WLAN

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; ARCHITECTURE AND PERFORMANCE; CAPTURE EFFECT; DATA TRANSMISSION; DIVERSITY; DIVERSITY EFFECTS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FAIRNESS; HIGH DENSITY; HOTSPOTS; IEEE 802.11S; MAC LAYER; MULTICELL; MULTIPATHS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE GAIN; TRANSMISSION ERROR; TRANSMISSION RELIABILITY; WIRELESS MULTI-AP NETWORKS; WLAN;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ERROR DETECTION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; STANDARDS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 70350283515     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.060157     Document Type: Article

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