Providing service guarantees in 802.11e EDCA WLANs with legacy stations

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1057-1071

  Banchs, Albert ^a,b   Serrano, Pablo ^a   Vollero, Luca ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b IMDEA NETWORKS INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

802.11; 802.11e; ACKS; Control theory; DCF; EDCA; Legacy stations; Throughput guarantees; WLAN

Indexed keywords

802.11; 802.11E; A-FRAMES; ACCESS MECHANISM; ACCESS POINTS; CLASSICAL CONTROL THEORY; CONTENTION WINDOW; PROPORTIONAL CONTROLLER; SERVICE GUARANTEES; SIMULATION RESULT; THEORETIC ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; CONTROL THEORY; SYSTEM THEORY; THROUGHPUT;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 77953809183     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2010.52     Document Type: Article

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