Log-convexity of rate region in 802.11e WLANs

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-59

  Leith, Douglas ^a   Subramanian, Vijay ^a   Duffy, Ken ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

802.11; Convex optimisation; Log convexity; Rate region; Utility fairness

Indexed keywords

802.11 E; 802.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS; 802.11 WLANS; ALOHA NETWORKS; ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; OPTIMISATIONS; UTILITY FAIRNESS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 75449084384     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2010.01.091154     Document Type: Article

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