Evaluation of the Masked Node Problem in Ad Hoc Wireless LANs

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 430-442

  Ray, Saikat ^a   Carruthers, Jeffrey B ^a   Starobinski, David ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

experimental design; performance evaluation; queuing theory; simulation; Wireless communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008030166     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2005.66     Document Type: Article

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