Experimental Evaluation of Rate Switch Control in Wireless Mesh Networks

Author

Togashi, Tomoya ; Mase, Kenichi ; Okada, Hiraku

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Niigata Univ., Niigata, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

15-18 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

IEEE802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN (WLAN) supports multiple transmission rates for packet transmission. In a mesh network backbone using WLAN, it is desirable to select and use an optimum transmission rate in order to achieve high throughput. Transmission rate can be set fixedly or adaptively. The former is further classified to link-based and node-based. In this paper, three transmission rate selection methods, link-based fixed optimum rate transmission, node-based fixed rate transmission and adaptive rate transmission are experimentally evaluated. It is shown that the link-based fixed optimum rate transmission method outperforms the other methods in the average throughput.

Keywords

IEEE standards; packet radio networks; telecommunication control; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; wireless mesh networks; IEEE802.11a/b/g wireless LAN; WLAN; adaptive rate transmission; link-based fixed optimum rate transmission; node-based fixed rate transmission; packet transmission; rate switch control; wireless mesh networks; Control systems; Fluctuations; Interference; Size measurement; Throughput; Time measurement; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2011 IEEE 73rd

Conference_Location

Yokohama

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8332-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2011.5956675

Filename

5956675