Assessment of the IEEE 802.11e EDCA protocol limitations when dealing with real-time communication

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Moraes, Ricardo ^a   Portugal, Paulo ^c   Vasques, Francisco ^c   Custdio, Ricardo F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE PACKET DELAYS; CONTENTION WINDOW; DEFAULT PARAMETERS; ERROR PRONES; ERROR-FREE CHANNELS; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; IEEE 802.11E EDCA; IEEE802.11E; MESSAGE STREAMS; OPEN COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY LEVELS; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION;

FREQUENCY BANDS; STANDARDS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77955288229     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/351480     Document Type: Article

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