Leveraging SDN and OpenFlow to mitigate interference in enterprise WLAN

Journal of Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1526-1533

  Zhao, Dong ^a   Zhu, Ming ^a   Xu, Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

DCF; Enterprise WLAN; Interference mitigation; Openflow; SDN

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRY; SCHEDULING;

ACCESS POINT (APS); DCF; INTERFERENCE MITIGATION; INTERMITTENT CONNECTIONS; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; OPENFLOW; PACKET RECEPTION RATE; SDN;

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

EID: 84902298203     PISSN: 17962056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jnw.9.6.1526-1533     Document Type: Article

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