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Evolution of WLANs towards VoIP traffic and higher throughputs

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Nidhi HegdeAuthors Info & Claims

AcessNets '06: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Access networks

Pages 9 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1189355.1189364

Published: 04 September 2006 Publication History

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As WLANs have become more popular, limitations in the original design of WLAN have also become more evident. The MAC protocol of WLAN was designed to reduce transmission collisions in a distributed access environment. In many cases however, the user-level performance is severely limited, not only for data transfers, but voice applications as well. We present an overview of major shortcomings of the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol and review proposed solutions. We propose a novel and implicit scheme to improve the voice capacity of WLANs, and present results on performance metrics, based on analytical models.

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Wei XBouslimani YSellal K(2012)VoIP based solution for the use over a campus environment2012 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)10.1109/CCECE.2012.6335009(1-5)Online publication date: Apr-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2012.6335009
Moh MMoh TChan K(2010)Error-Sensitive adaptive frame aggregation in 802.11n WLANProceedings of the 8th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications10.1007/978-3-642-13315-2_6(64-76)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-13315-2_6

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Wei XBouslimani YSellal K(2012)VoIP based solution for the use over a campus environment2012 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)10.1109/CCECE.2012.6335009(1-5)Online publication date: Apr-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2012.6335009
Moh MMoh TChan K(2010)Error-Sensitive adaptive frame aggregation in 802.11n WLANProceedings of the 8th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications10.1007/978-3-642-13315-2_6(64-76)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-13315-2_6

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