Title :
A distributed solution for air-time fairness in multi-rate WLANs
Author :
Yazici, M.A. ; Akar, N.
Author_Institution :
Elektrik ve Elektron. Muhendisligi Bolumu, Bilkent Univ., Ankara, Turkey
Abstract :
WLANs employing IEEE802.11 standards suffer from a performance anomaly that drags down the fast nodes in the WLAN due to the slow nodes. Air time fairness has been proposed to battle this anomaly. We propose a novel distributed method to achieve air time fairness in this study.
Keywords :
wireless LAN; IEEE802.11 standards; air-time fairness; distributed solution; multirate WLANs; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Nickel; Quality of service; Wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function; air time fairness; multi-rate wireless network; performance anomaly;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2013 21st
Conference_Location :
Haspolat
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5562-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5561-2
DOI :
10.1109/SIU.2013.6531256
