Fairness analysis of throughput and delay in WLAN environments with channel diversities

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Chiapin ^a   Lo, Hao Kai ^a   Fang, Shih Hau ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; CHANNEL CODING; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PACKET NETWORKS; STANDARDS;

802.11 CSMA/CA; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CHANNEL CONDITIONS; CHANNEL DIVERSITY; FADING EFFECT; IEEE802.11 WLAN; LINK ADAPTATION; MODULATION AND CODING SCHEMES;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 84964297993     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-1499-2011-42     Document Type: Article

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