Design of rate-adaptive MAC and medium aware routing protocols for multi-rate, multi-hop wireless networks

The IEEE 802.11 standard conformant wireless communication stations have multi-rate transmission capability. To achieve greater communication efficiency, multi-rate capable stations use rateadaptation to select appropriate transmission rate according to variations in the channel quality. The thesis...

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Main Author: Khan, Shahbaz
Other Authors: Al-Raweshidy, H.
Published: Brunel University 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508843