Channel assignment schemes for infrastructure-based 802.11 WLANs: A survey

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 124-136

  Chieochan, Surachai ^a   Hossain, Ekram ^a   Diamond, Jeffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b TRLabs ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Channel allocation; Channel assignment; IEEE 802.11; Network planning; Resource allocation; Wireless networking

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ALLOCATION; CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT; IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.11 NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKING;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVEYS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

STANDARDS;

EID: 77249090725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2010.020110.00047     Document Type: Article

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