TDMA on commercial of-the-shelf hardware: Fact and fiction revealed

AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 800-813

  Torfs, Wim ^a   Blondia, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Commodity hardware; Linux timers; TDMA access mode

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

ACCESS MODE; ACCESS SCHEMES; COMMERCIAL OF THE SHELVES; COMMODITY HARDWARE; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; QOS PARAMETERS; TRANSMISSION SCHEMES;

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84940162906     PISSN: 14348411     EISSN: 16180399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeue.2015.01.010     Document Type: Article

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