Performance analysis of IEEE 802.11ac wireless backhaul networks in saturated conditions

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Liao, Ruizhi ^a   Bellalta, Boris ^a   Barcelo, Jaume ^a   Valls, Victor ^a   Oliver, Miquel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

IEEE 80211ac; MAC; MU MIMO; Saturation throughput; Wireless mesh backhaul networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894174265     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-1499-2013-226     Document Type: Article

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