BEWARE: Background traffic-aware rate adaptation for IEEE 802.11

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1164-1177

  Wang, Shao Cheng ^a   Helmy, Ahmed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

CSMA CA; IEEE 802.11; rate adaptation

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND TRAFFIC; CSMA/CA; DATA RATES; IEEE 802.11S; ON CURRENTS; ON THE FLIES; PACKET TRANSMISSIONS; PERFORMANCE PENALTIES; RATE ADAPTATION; SELECTION DECISIONS; SWITCH DATA; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; WIRELESS CHANNEL; WIRELESS CHANNEL CONDITION; WIRELESS LOSS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

STANDARDS;

EID: 80051791208     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2011.2106140     Document Type: Article

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