—In this paper a cooperative retransmission scheme for 802.11 WLANs is proposed. The mechanism allows stations with good channel to the access point to retransmit packets on beha...
In recent years, a wide variety of mobile computing devices has emerged, including portables, palmtops, and personal digit al assistants. Providing adequate network connectivity y...
Vaduvur Bharghavan, Alan J. Demers, Scott Shenker,...
—The design of a wireless local area network (WLAN) has an important issue of determining the optimal placement of access points (APs) and assignment of channels to them. WLAN se...
Spatial multiple access holds the promise to boost the capacity of wireless networks when an access point has multiple antennas. Due to the asynchronous and uncontrolled nature of...
Kun Tan, He Liu, Ji Fang, Wei Wang, Jiansong Zhang...
Opportunistic user access scheduling enhances the capacity of wireless networks by exploiting the multi user diversity. When frame aggregation is used, opportunistic schemes are no...