Rate adaptation in congested wireless networks through real-time measurements

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1535-1550

  Acharya, Prashanth A K ^a   Sharma, Ashish ^a   Belding, Elizabeth M ^a   Almeroth, Kevin C ^a   Papagiannaki, Konstantina ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

access schemes; algorithm protocol design and analysis.; Wireless communication

Indexed keywords

ACCESS SCHEMES; ACTIVE PROBE; ALGORITHM/PROTOCOL DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; CHANNEL ACCESS; CONGESTED NETWORKS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; DATA RATES; IEEE 802.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; PACKET TRANSMISSIONS; PASSIVE METHODS; RATE ADAPTATION; RATE ADAPTATION SCHEMES; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; TESTBED NETWORKS; THROUGHPUT IMPROVEMENT; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PACKET LOSS; STANDARDS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS; TIME MEASUREMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 77955122356     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2010.108     Document Type: Article

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