TCP fairness issues in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs Export

@article{citeulike:4749760, abstract = {In this paper, we study several TCP fairness issues in wireless local networks, both experimentally and via simulation. We illustrate the unfairness problems caused by the 802.11 MAC protocol, as well as by cross-layer interactions. Two possible solutions, namely SPM-AF queue management and LAS queue management, are proposed in the paper. These two queue management approaches are designed to alleviate the unfairness among competing TCP flows. The evaluation of these approaches uses the ns-2 network simulator. The simulation results show that the proposed approaches provide better sharing of the limited wireless network bandwidth among TCP flows.}, address = {Newton, MA, USA}, author = {Wu, Qian and Gong, Mingwei and Williamson, Carey}, citeulike-article-id = {4749760}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1380027}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2008.02.013}, doi = {10.1016/j.comcom.2008.02.013}, issn = {0140-3664}, journal = {Comput. Commun.}, keywords = {2, 80211, fairness, ieee, network, network-simulation, network-simulator, networksimulation, networksimulator, ns, ns-2, ns2, scheduling, simulation, simulator, size-based, wireless, wireless-network}, number = {10}, pages = {2150--2161}, posted-at = {2009-07-09 18:42:49}, priority = {3}, publisher = {Butterworth-Heinemann}, title = {TCP fairness issues in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2008.02.013}, volume = {31}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4749760 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4749760 N2 - In this paper, we study several TCP fairness issues in wireless local networks, both experimentally and via simulation. We illustrate the unfairness problems caused by the 802.11 MAC protocol, as well as by cross-layer interactions. Two possible solutions, namely SPM-AF queue management and LAS queue management, are proposed in the paper. These two queue management approaches are designed to alleviate the unfairness among competing TCP flows. The evaluation of these approaches uses the ns-2 network simulator. The simulation results show that the proposed approaches provide better sharing of the limited wireless network bandwidth among TCP flows. IS - 10 JF - Comput. Commun. SN - 0140-3664 AD - Newton, MA, USA EP - 2161 TI - TCP fairness issues in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs PB - Butterworth-Heinemann VL - 31 SP - 2150 KW - 2 KW - 80211 KW - fairness KW - ieee KW - network KW - network-simulation KW - network-simulator KW - networksimulation KW - networksimulator KW - ns KW - ns-2 KW - ns2 KW - scheduling KW - simulation KW - simulator KW - size-based KW - wireless KW - wireless-network AU - Wu, Qian AU - Gong, Mingwei AU - Williamson, Carey PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2008.02.013 ER -