MAC design for WiFi infrastructure networks: A game-theoretic approach

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2510-2522

  Tinnirello, Ilenia ^a   Giarré, Laura ^a   Neglia, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

game theory; MAC design; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; CHANNEL ACCESS; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTIONS; INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS; MAC DESIGN; MOBILE NODES; OPEN SOURCES; RANDOM ACCESS PROTOCOL; RANDOM ACCESS SCHEMES; SHARED CHANNEL; WI FI NETWORKS; WIRELESS LAN;

GAME THEORY; NETWORK PERFORMANCE;

WI-FI;

EID: 84860389547     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.062011.100193     Document Type: Article

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