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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2013 IEEE 38th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0536-2
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.2013.6761328
