Throughput Analysis and Measurements in IEEE 802.11 WLANs with TCP and UDP Traffic Flows

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-186

  Brunc, Raffaele ^a   Conti, Marco ^a   Gregori, Enrico ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

802.11 MAC protocol; Markov chain; performance modeling; TCP; UDP

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; AGGREGATES; CHAINS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; STANDARDS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

802.11 MAC PROTOCOL; AGGREGATE THROUGHPUT; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOL; PERFORMANCE MODEL; THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS; USER DATAGRAM PROTOCOL;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84985994259     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.70718     Document Type: Article

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