Association control for vehicular WiFi access: Pursuing efficiency and fairness

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1323-1331

  Xie, Lei ^a   Li, Qun ^b   Mao, Weizhen ^b   Wu, Jie ^c   Chen, Daoxu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^c Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

Association control; efficiency; fairness; vehicular network

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; ASSOCIATION CONTROL; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; EFFICIENCY AND FAIRNESS; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; FAIRNESS; INTERNET ACCESS; MOBILE USERS; SIMULATION RESULT; VEHICULAR NETWORK;

EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WI-FI;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79959700091     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2011.17     Document Type: Article

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