Unwanted link layer traffic in large IEEE 802.11 wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1212-1225

  Raghavendra, Ramya ^a   Belding, Elizabeth M ^a   Papagiannaki, Konstantina ^b   Almeroth, Kevin C ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion; Experimentation; Handoff; IEEE 802.11.; Management; Measurement; Network operations; Network protocols; Performance; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION; EXPERIMENTATION; IEEE 802.11.; IEEE 802.11S; NETWORK OPERATIONS;

INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; PACKET NETWORKS; STANDARDS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 77954865384     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2010.88     Document Type: Article

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