Symphony: Synchronous two-phase rate and power control in 802.11 WLANs

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1289-1302

  Ramachandran, Kishore ^a   Kokku, Ravi ^a   Zhang, Honghai ^a   Gruteser, Marco ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b Piscataway   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; battery life; interference; mobility; rate adaptation; transmit power control; VOIP; wireless LANs (WLANs)

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; BATTERY LIFE; INTERFERENCE; MOBILITY; RATE ADAPTATION; TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL; VOIP; WIRELESS LAN;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE DEVICES; POWER CONTROL; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955770743     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2010.2040036     Document Type: Article

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