SMARTA: A selfmanaging architecture for thin access points

Proceedings of CoNEXT'06 - 2nd Conference on Future Networking Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ahmed, N ^a   Keshav, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Access points; Channel assignment; Power control; RF interference

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPERATING PARAMETERS; OPTIMIZED CONFIGURATION; PACKET DELAY; POWER LEVELS; REALISTIC SCENARIO; RF INTERFERENCE; RF PROPAGATION; SELF-MANAGING; WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT; WIRELESS LAN;

ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMIZATION; POWER CONTROL;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 77953827937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1368436.1368449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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