Channel condition based contention window adaptation in IEEE 802.11 WLANs

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 469-478

  Hong, Kunho ^a   Lee, Su Kyoung ^a   Kim, Kyungsoo ^b   Kim, Yoon Hyuk ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Kyonggi University   (South Korea)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Backoff; Channel access delay; DCF; IEEE 802.11; Non saturated condition; Throughput

Indexed keywords

BACK-OFF; CHANNEL ACCESS; DCF; IEEE 802.11S; NON-SATURATED CONDITIONS;

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDS;

THROUGHPUT;

EID: 84863180951     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2012.012012.100472     Document Type: Article

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