Assessment of the IEEE 802.11e EDCA Protocol Limitations when Dealing with Real-Time Communication
The timing behavior of the EDCA mechanism defined in the IEEE 802.11e standard is analyzed. More specifically, the target of this paper is to evaluate the limitations of the highest priority level of the EDCA mechanism (voice category) when supporting real-time (RT) communication. By RT communicatio...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2010-01-01
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Series: | EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/351480 |