WiFox: Scaling WiFi performance for large audience environments

CoNEXT 2012 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 217-228

  Gupta, Arpit ^a   Min, Jeongki ^a   Rhee, Injong ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Goodput; Large audience environments; Traffic asymmetry; WiFi

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; BACKLOGGED PACKETS; CHANNEL ACCESS; CONFERENCE NETWORK; GOOD PUT; INTERNET ACCESS; LARGE AUDIENCE ENVIRONMENTS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE LOSS; POOR PERFORMANCE; RATE-DIVERSITY; TRAFFIC ASYMMETRY; TRAFFIC PATTERN; WIFI HOTSPOTS;

EXPERIMENTS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

WI-FI;

EID: 84871991541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2413176.2413202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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