DocumentCode
3541033
Title
Performance of multi-channel IEEE 802.11 WLANs with bidirectional flow control
Author
Nguyen, Suong H. ; Andrew, Lachlan L. H. ; Vu, Hai L.
Author_Institution
Centre for Adv. Internet Archit., Swinburne Univ., Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
fYear
2013
fDate
21-24 Oct. 2013
Firstpage
755
Lastpage
758
Abstract
We investigate three ways WLANs can use two channels to carry TCP traffic. Using simulation and a simple model, we show that load balancing over both channels outperforms the others while using a single double-width channel is the worst.
Keywords
transport protocols; wireless LAN; TCP traffic; bidirectional flow control; double-width channel; load balancing; multichannel IEEE 802.11 WLAN; Computational modeling; Downlink; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Mathematical model; Media Access Protocol; Throughput; Uplink;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2013 IEEE 38th Conference on
Conference_Location
Sydney, NSW
ISSN
0742-1303
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-0536-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LCN.2013.6761328
Filename
6761328
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