Client-weighted medium-transparent MAC protocol for user-centric fairness in 60 GHz radio-over-fiber WLANs

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 33-44

  Kalfas, G ^a,b   Maniotis, P ^b,c   Markou, S ^b,c   Tsiokos, D ^b   Pleros, N ^b,c   Alonso, L ^a   Verikoukis, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia   (Spain)

Author keywords

60 GHz WLANs; Fiber wireless; Medium transparent MAC; Radio over fiber; Remote access unit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894136407     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.6.000033     Document Type: Article

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