A distributed coordination scheme to improve the performance of IEEE 802.11 in multi-hop networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2903-2908

  Ye, Fengji ^a   Yang, Haiming ^a   Yang, Hua ^b   Sikdar, Biplab ^c  

^a CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (China)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11; MAC protocol; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

802.11 MAC; ADJACENT NODES; BANDWIDTH EFFICIENCY; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION; IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.11S; MAC PROTOCOL; MULTIHOP; MULTIHOP NETWORKS; RESOURCE CONTENTION; SATURATION STATE; SIMULATION RESULT; SPATIAL REUSE; WIRELESS LAN;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; STANDARDS; STATE FEEDBACK; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 70350590833     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.10.080046     Document Type: Article

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