IEEE 802.11e QoS provisioning at the MAC layer.

IEEE 802.11e QoS provisioning at the MAC layer.

This article introduces the emerging IEEE 802.11e standard to support quality of service at the medium access control layer. Both the contention-based and contention-free centrally controlled channel access mechanisms are introduced by describing not only the MAC protocol operations and parameters,...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Wireless communications 11, 3 (2004).
Main Author: Yang Xiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
IEEE 802.11e standard.
Call admission techniques.
Enhanced distributed coordination function.
Medium access control layer.
Quality of service.
Scheduling algorithm.
Traffic classes.