Performance enhancement and evaluation of IEEE 802.11ah multi-access point network using restricted access window mechanism

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 287-293

  Raeesi, Orod ^a   Pirskanen, Juho ^b   Hazmi, Ali ^a   Talvitie, Jukka ^a   Valkama, Mikko ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

IEEE 802.11ah; Internet of Things; Machine to Machine; multi APs; Restricted Access Window

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTERNET OF THINGS; INVESTMENTS; SENSORS;

EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; IEEE 802.11AH; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); MACHINE TO MACHINES; MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M); MULTI-APS; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS;

STANDARDS;

EID: 84904430741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DCOSS.2014.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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