Channel occupancy time based TCP rate control for improving fairness in IEEE 802.11 DCF

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2974-2985

  Kashibuchi, Kenichi ^a   Jamalipour, Abbas ^b   Kato, Nei ^c  

^a NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Channel occupancy time; cross layer design; fairness; IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF); Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STATIONS; BASIC SERVICE SETS; CHANNEL OCCUPANCY; COMPETING STATIONS; CROSS-LAYER APPROACH; CROSS-LAYER DESIGN; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; IEEE 802.11 DCF; IEEE 802.11 DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTIONS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER; MULTI-RATE IEEE 802.11; PERFORMANCE ANOMALY; RATE CONTROLS; SIMULATION RESULT; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; TRANSPORT LAYERS; UNFAIRNESS PROBLEM; WINDOW CONTROL; WINDOW SIZE; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; PACKET NETWORKS; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 77954613497     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2010.2048931     Document Type: Article

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