WiLDNet: Design and implementation of high performance WiFi based long distance networks

4th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 87-100

  Patra, Rabin ^a,b   Nedevschi, Sergiu ^a,b   Surana, Sonesh ^a   Sheth, Anmol ^c   Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan ^d   Brewer, Eric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTEL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IEEE STANDARDS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

802.11 MAC PROTOCOL; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; END-TO-END PERFORMANCE; END-TO-END THROUGHPUT; LINK UTILIZATION; LOSS CHARACTERISTICS; REAL WORLD DEPLOYMENT; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES;

WI-FI;

EID: 84977799481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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