Measurement and analysis of link quality in wireless networks: An application perspective

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kolar, Vinay ^a   Razak, Saquib ^a   Mähönen, Petri ^b   Abu Ghazaleh, Nael B ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (Qatar)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ERROR RATE; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; IEEE 802.11S; LINK QUALITY; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT-BASED; PACKET ERROR RATES; RATE-ADAPTATION; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; SEVERAL PROTOCOLS; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION RATES; WIRELESS LINK; WIRELESS TESTBED;

STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 77953876742     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOMW.2010.5466673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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