Impact of aggregation headers on aggregating small MSDUs in 802.11n WLANs

ICCAIE 2010 - 2010 International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 630-635

  Saif, Anwar ^a   Othman, Mohamed ^a   Subramaniam, Shamala ^a   Abdul Hamid, Nor Asila Wati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

802.11n; A MSDU; Block ACK; Frame aggregation; Next generation networks

Indexed keywords

802.11N; A-MSDU; BLOCK ACK; FRAME AGGREGATION; NEXT GENERATION NETWORK;

COLD HEADING; COST REDUCTION; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 79953905138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAIE.2010.5735011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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