Performance analysis of IEEE 802.11 WLANs with saturated and unsaturated sources

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 333-345

  Nguyen, Suong H ^a   Vu, Hai L ^a   Andrew, Lachlan L H ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous traffic; IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA)

Indexed keywords

ACCESS DELAY; FAIR SERVICE; GEOMETRIC RANDOM VARIABLES; HETEROGENEOUS TRAFFIC; IEEE 802.11S; IEEE802.11E; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SERVICE; REAL TIME TRAFFICS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SERVICES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RANDOM VARIABLES;

STANDARDS;

EID: 84856195839     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2011.2174069     Document Type: Article

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