Sfairopoulou, Anna (Date of defense: 2008-07-28)
In IEEE 802.11 WLANs, Link Adaptation mechanisms, which choose the transmission rate of each node, provoke unexpected and random variations on the effective channel capacity. When these changes are ...
Liao, Ruizhi (Date of defense: 2014-10-06)
IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks, especially the infrastructure based Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) or Wi-Fi networks, are hugely successful, and have become an indispensable part of our life ...
Sanabria-Russo, Luis (Date of defense: 2016-10-21)
Using a deterministic backoff after successful transmissions as a distributed contention mechanism for access to the channel can draw benefits from scheduled operation, like the elimination of simultaneous ...