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Adaptive Optimal Frame Length Predictor for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN

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Overview This paper presents an optimal frame length predictor in terms of maximizing the channel utilization. Kalman filter is adopted to predict the optimal frame size under noisy wire-less channel. Wireless channel is dynamically time-varying and bursty caused by fading, noise and interference, shadowing, path loss and so forth. In order to combat the affect of wireless channel and provide Quality of Service (QoS), a lot of kinds of approaches are proposed. Link adaptation is one approach focusing on through building a reliable MAC and PHY layer to provide committed QoS. There are many research work focusing on this topic.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2001
Format	White Papers
Topics	Local Area Networks (LAN), Wireless LAN, Wi-Fi (802.11)

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