Virtualization of 802.11 interfaces for wireless Mesh Networks

2011 8th International Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services, WONS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 44-51

  Al Hazmi, Yahya ^a   De Meer, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; PSM; Simultaneous connectivity; Soft handover; Virtualization; WLAN; WMNS

Indexed keywords

PSM; SIMULTANEOUS CONNECTIVITY; SOFT HANDOVER; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WLAN; WMNS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET TELEPHONY; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; VIDEOTEX; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

MESH NETWORKING;

EID: 79952824547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WONS.2011.5720199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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