Interframe-space control for fair throughput guarantee in wireless LANs with hidden stations

Yun Li, Koichi Nishide, Ryoichi Shinkuma, Tatsuro Takahashi

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Abstract

This paper presents a study of ensuring throughput fairness in wireless local area networks (WLANs) with hidden stations (STAs). In the conventional enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) mechanism, we found throughputs between stations became unfair due to the hidden-station problem even if the same quality-of-service (QoS) priority was given to the stations. In this paper, a dynamic control mechanism called one-step control is proposed to solve this problem, and it uses the interframe-space (IFS) parameter of EDCA and adaptively adjusts the IFS to an appropriate value to achieve throughput fairness according to common information on throughput in the network. The simulation results verified that the proposed mechanism could reduce the influences of hidden stations and ensure throughput fairness while total throughput could be adequately maintained. copyright

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2008 14th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, APCC 2008
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event2008 14th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, APCC 2008 - Akihabara, Tokyo, United States
Duration: 2008 Oct 142008 Oct 16

Publication series

Name2008 14th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, APCC 2008

Conference

Conference2008 14th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, APCC 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAkihabara, Tokyo
Period08/10/1408/10/16

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Communication

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