Opportunistic Use of Client Repeaters to Improve Performance of WLANs Export

@article{bahl:repeaters, abstract = {Currently deployed IEEE 802.11 WLANs (Wi-Fi networks) share access point (AP) bandwidth on a per-packet basis. However, various stations communicating with the AP often have different signal qualities, resulting in different transmission rates. This induces a phenomenon known as the rate anomaly problem, in which stations with lower signal quality transmit at lower rates and consume a significant majority of airtime, thereby dramatically reducing the throughput of stations transmitting at higher rates.}, address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA}, author = {Bahl, Paramvir and Chandra, Ranveer and Lee, Patrick P. C. and Misra, Vishal and Padhye, Jitendra and Rubenstein, Dan and Yu, Yan}, citeulike-article-id = {5819525}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1618562.1618574}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2009.2026414}, doi = {10.1109/TNET.2009.2026414}, issn = {1063-6692}, journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking}, keywords = {80211, rate, repeaters}, month = {August}, number = {4}, pages = {1160--1171}, posted-at = {2009-09-22 10:30:40}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, title = {Opportunistic Use of Client Repeaters to Improve Performance of {WLANs}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2009.2026414}, volume = {17}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - bahl:repeaters L3 - citeulike-article-id:5819525 N2 - Currently deployed IEEE 802.11 WLANs (Wi-Fi networks) share access point (AP) bandwidth on a per-packet basis. However, various stations communicating with the AP often have different signal qualities, resulting in different transmission rates. This induces a phenomenon known as the rate anomaly problem, in which stations with lower signal quality transmit at lower rates and consume a significant majority of airtime, thereby dramatically reducing the throughput of stations transmitting at higher rates. IS - 4 JF - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking SN - 1063-6692 AD - Piscataway, NJ, USA EP - 1171 TI - Opportunistic Use of Client Repeaters to Improve Performance of {WLANs} PB - IEEE Press VL - 17 SP - 1160 KW - 80211 KW - rate KW - repeaters AU - Bahl, Paramvir AU - Chandra, Ranveer AU - Lee, Patrick AU - Misra, Vishal AU - Padhye, Jitendra AU - Rubenstein, Dan AU - Yu, Yan PY - 2009/August// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2009.2026414 ER -