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Wireless Internet: Protocols and Performance

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Performance Tools and Applications to Networked Systems (MASCOTS 2003)

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This tutorial article describes the IEEE 802.11b Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) standard, which is commonly referred to as “WiFi”. This standard offers up to 11 Mbps of transmission capacity at the physical layer of the protocol stack, and is one of the key enabling technologies for wireless Internet, mobile computing, and ad hoc networking applications. After introducing the standard and its features, the latter part of the article discusses protocol interactions that occur when popular Internet applications, such as multimedia streaming and the World Wide Web, operate over IEEE 802.11b WLANs. These interactions can lead to performance problems in the TCP/IP Internet protocol stack.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Carey Williamson

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, I-27100, Pavia, Italy

    Maria Carla Calzarossa

  2. Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College, SW7 2BT, London, UK

    Erol Gelenbe

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Williamson, C. (2004). Wireless Internet: Protocols and Performance. In: Calzarossa, M.C., Gelenbe, E. (eds) Performance Tools and Applications to Networked Systems. MASCOTS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2965. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24663-3_6

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