An improved IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol for wireless ad-hoc networks with multi-channel access capabilities

Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, HPCS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 162-168

  Maiya, Megha ^a   Hamdaoui, Bechir ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

load balancing and resource sharing; MAC protocols; multichannel access; multihop networks

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL BANDWIDTH; CONTROL MESSAGES; DATA CHANNELS; IEEE 802.11 MAC PROTOCOLS; MAC PROTOCOL; MAC PROTOCOLS; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTIHOP NETWORKS; MULTIHOP WIRELESS NETWORK; MULTIPLE CHANNELS; RESOURCE SHARING;

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 80053025803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCSim.2011.5999820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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