Experimental evaluation of TCP performance and fairness in an 802.11e test-bed

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Workshop on Experimental Approaches to Wireless Network Design and Analysis, E-WIND 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 17-22

  Ng, Anthony C H ^a   Malone, David ^a   Leith, Douglas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

802.11; 802.11e; fairness; TCP; test bed

Indexed keywords

802.11; 802.11E; CROSS-LAYER INTERACTION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FAIRNESS; TCP; TCP CONGESTION CONTROL ALGORITHM; TESTING METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; TESTBEDS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 84885815965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1080148.1080152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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