Effective load for flow-level performance modelling of file transfers in wireless LANs

Computer Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1972-1981

  Hoekstra, G J ^a,b   Van Der Mei, R D ^a,c  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b THALES   (France)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Engineering; Flow level performance; Near insensitivity; Processor sharing; Wireless LANs

Indexed keywords

802.11 MAC; ACCURATE PERFORMANCE; ACCURATE PREDICTION; ANALYTIC MODELS; AVERAGE RESPONSE TIME; BUFFER CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; FILE TRANSFERS; FIXED POINT EQUATION; FLOW-LEVEL PERFORMANCE; HEAVY-TAILED; LEVEL MODEL; LOAD CONDITION; MODEL-BASED; NEAR-INSENSITIVITY; PARAMETER COMBINATION; PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING; PROCESSOR SHARING; PROTOCOL OVERHEAD; PS-MODEL; SERVICE TIME; SINGLE PARAMETER; WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS; WIRELESS LAN;

FORECASTING; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MODELS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77956178477     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2010.06.026     Document Type: Article

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