Weighted window and class-based weighted window methods for per-station TCP fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.

TCP unfairness problem in access networks using the 802.11 has been studied by many researchers. Their solutions required that the existing MAC protocol be modified. However, since they did not consider the case when each wireless node has a different number of flows, they cannot provide fairness am...

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Main Authors: Othman, Mohamed, Seyedzadegan, Mojtaba
Format: Article
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17637/
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description TCP unfairness problem in access networks using the 802.11 has been studied by many researchers. Their solutions required that the existing MAC protocol be modified. However, since they did not consider the case when each wireless node has a different number of flows, they cannot provide fairness among wireless nodes having different numbers of flow in both directions. In order to resolve this problem, Weighted Window and Class-Based Weighted Window methods are proposed. In the Weighted Window method, each wireless node can control the rate of TCP flows based on TCP window size. By applying this method, per-station fairness can be achieved, regardless of the number and direction of flows in each wireless node. Furthermore, to improve and to provide fair bandwidth allocation in the Weighted Window method when the users have different requirements, the Class-Based Weighted Window method is proposed. Therefore, for wireless nodes with different requirements, fair allocation bandwidth between wireless nodes in the same class of bandwidth is achieved.
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spelling upm-176372013-07-12T07:48:33Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17637/ Weighted window and class-based weighted window methods for per-station TCP fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. Othman, Mohamed Seyedzadegan, Mojtaba TCP unfairness problem in access networks using the 802.11 has been studied by many researchers. Their solutions required that the existing MAC protocol be modified. However, since they did not consider the case when each wireless node has a different number of flows, they cannot provide fairness among wireless nodes having different numbers of flow in both directions. In order to resolve this problem, Weighted Window and Class-Based Weighted Window methods are proposed. In the Weighted Window method, each wireless node can control the rate of TCP flows based on TCP window size. By applying this method, per-station fairness can be achieved, regardless of the number and direction of flows in each wireless node. Furthermore, to improve and to provide fair bandwidth allocation in the Weighted Window method when the users have different requirements, the Class-Based Weighted Window method is proposed. Therefore, for wireless nodes with different requirements, fair allocation bandwidth between wireless nodes in the same class of bandwidth is achieved. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 Article PeerReviewed Othman, Mohamed and Seyedzadegan, Mojtaba (2010) Weighted window and class-based weighted window methods for per-station TCP fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2010 (84). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1687-1499 10.1155/2010/593497
spellingShingle Othman, Mohamed
Seyedzadegan, Mojtaba
Weighted window and class-based weighted window methods for per-station TCP fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.
title Weighted window and class-based weighted window methods for per-station TCP fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.
title_full Weighted window and class-based weighted window methods for per-station TCP fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.
title_fullStr Weighted window and class-based weighted window methods for per-station TCP fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.
title_full_unstemmed Weighted window and class-based weighted window methods for per-station TCP fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.
title_short Weighted window and class-based weighted window methods for per-station TCP fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.
title_sort weighted window and class-based weighted window methods for per-station tcp fairness in ieee 802.11 wlans.
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17637/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17637/