Development of Efficient wireless access schemes for wireless LANs

Though the Wireless LAN (WLANs) performance has improved tremendously in recent years, all the revisions and fixes have resulted in the standard becoming difficult to analyze. As the endeavor to reach gigabit speeds over WLANs keeps growing, the time to reflect on the direction we are headed dawns upon us. This book presents efficient schemes to optimize performance factors like throughput and latency while obtaining energy efficient communication.In this book we look at using a distributed yet contention free medium access control (MAC) to decrease latency. We also tackle energy efficiency issues. In the end we consider using clever modulation schemes which would lead to increased performance benefit.

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Ajay Kulkarni received his PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas. His area of interest includes wireless protocols, performance and optimization. He has worked for companies like Intel and Cisco and holds quite a few publications in the field of systems and data networking.