A taxonomy of IEEE 802.11 wireless parameters and open source measurement tools

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 249-262

  Dujovne, Diego ^a,b   Turletti, Thierry ^b   Filali, Fethi ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c EURECOM   (France)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11; Open source software; Probes; Wireless analyzers; Wireless measurements; Wireless parameters

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION; IEEE 802.11 NETWORKS; IEEE 802.11S; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT TOOLS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE TOOLS; OPEN SOURCES; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; WIRELESS CARDS; WIRELESS MEASUREMENTS; WIRELESS PROTOCOL; WIRELESS TRAFFIC;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS; MEASUREMENTS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROBES; STANDARDS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 77955061867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2010.021110.00020     Document Type: Article

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