Channel access throttling for improving WLAN QoS

2009 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

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

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11e; QoS; Wireless LAN; Wireless multimedia networks

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ACCESS; CHANNEL ACCESS PARAMETERS; DATA FRAMES; DE FACTO; DEVICE DRIVER; ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED CHANNEL ACCESS; EVALUATION RESULTS; IEEE 802.11 WIRELESS LAN; IEEE 802.11E; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; OPEN-SOURCE; QOS; QOS SUPPORT; TRAFFIC CATEGORIES; WIRELESS LAN; WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA NETWORKS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION; INTERNET TELEPHONY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; STANDARDS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 70449591232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAHCN.2009.5168915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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