—The mandatory access mode in IEEE 802.11 MAC is Distributed Coordination Function (DCF), which provides both basic access and RTS/CTS(request-to-send/clear-to-send) access. Prev...
The low price of commodity wireless LAN cards and access points (APs) has resulted in the rich proliferation of high density WLANs in enterprise, academic environments, and public ...
Admission control as a mechanism for providing QoS requires an accurate description of the requested flow as well as already admitted flows. Since 802.11 WLAN capacity is shared...
The IEEE 802.11e technology is receiving much interest due to the promising enhancements it will offer to wireless local area networks in terms of QoS support. Until now, research...
Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate, Pietro Manzoni, Ma...
— The long-standing vision of ubiquitous Internet access requires high-speed wireless networks that sustain 100 Mbps or more. While existing hardware already supports these speed...