The impact of dynamic RTS Threshold adjustment for IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol

Mobile Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-20

  Mjidi, Mostafa ^a   Chakraborty, Debasish ^a   Nakamura, Naoki ^b   Shiratori, Norio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11; MAC; RTS CTS Threshold

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; DATA TRANSFER; IEEE STANDARDS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

DATA-TRANSMISSION; IEEE 802.11; LIMITED COMMUNICATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; RTS-CTS THRESHOLD; RTS/CTS; TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS; THRESHOLD ADJUSTMENTS; WIRELESS APPLICATION; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 77952991694     PISSN: 1574017X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/736242     Document Type: Article

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