• DocumentCode
    58634
  • Title

    Modeling and Exploiting the Relation Between Packet Losses and Hidden Traffic

  • Author

    Portoles-Comeras, M. ; Cabellos-Aparicio, Albert ; Serrano, Pablo ; Mangues-Bafalluy, Josep ; Nunez-Martinez, Jose ; Sole, Marc ; Banchs, Albert ; Domingo-Pascual, Jordi

  • Author_Institution
    Commun. Networks Div., Centre Tecnol. de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain
  • Volume
    2
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Aug-13
  • Firstpage
    391
  • Lastpage
    394
  • Abstract
    Nowadays, it is common to find multiple WLAN deployments coexisting in shared spaces. The resulting interference between transmissions represents an important source of performance degradation, specially those originating from hidden traffic. This note explores the relation between hidden traffic and packet losses, using renewal theory to show that losses constitute biased samples of hidden traffic. Building on the developed analytical model, the paper derives the optimal frame length that maximizes throughput in the presence of hidden traffic. The results are validated using an 802.11 WLAN in-lab setting.
  • Keywords
    telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 WLAN deployment; hidden traffic; packet losses; performance degradation; renewal theory; WLAN; hidden node interference; measurements; packet probing; renewal theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    2162-2337
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/WCL.2013.050613.130159
  • Filename
    6515585