A rate-adaptive MAC protocol for multi-Hop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Opportunistic media access for multirate ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
An Adaptive Multirate IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN
ICOIN '01 Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Information Networking
IEEE 802.11 rate adaptation: a practical approach
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Hybrid rate control for IEEE 802.11
Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobility management & wireless access protocols
Automatic IEEE 802.11 rate control for streaming applications: Research Articles
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing - Radio Link and Transport Protocol Engineering for Future-Generation Wireless Mobile Data Networks
Robust rate adaptation for 802.11 wireless networks
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Optimizing wireless multimedia transmissions through cross layer design
ICME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - Volume 2
A cautionary perspective on cross-layer design
IEEE Wireless Communications
Cross-layer wireless multimedia transmission: challenges, principles, and new paradigms
IEEE Wireless Communications
Cross-layer design for wireless networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Cross-layer design: a survey and the road ahead
IEEE Communications Magazine
A Cognitive Mechanism for Rate Adaptation in Wireless Networks
MACE '09 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments
BEWARE: background traffic-aware rate adaptation for IEEE 802.11
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Dynamic ARF for throughput improvement in 802.11 WLAN via a machine-learning approach
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Rate adaptation scheme for IEEE 802.11-based MANETs
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Optimizing the performance of wireless networks for emerging network applications is a highly challenging issue. Cross layer solutions offer promising possibilities of joint optimization across the protocol suite. This paper proposes a cross layer framework for rate adaptation in 802.11x networks. Previous approaches for rate adaptation mainly focused on the factors related to the wireless medium. However, the applications' demands and timing constraints of the underlying protocols were not considered. The solution proposed in this paper tackles these shortcomings with a novel approach by performing rate adaptation according to the changing channel conditions, application preferences and timing constraints of the underlying protocols. The proposed rate adaptation is based on a loss differentiation mechanism which identifies the real cause of channel variations and takes an appropriate action thereafter. The design provides flexibility of tuning various parameters according to application type and offers minimal complexity. The simulation results assert considerable improvements over the previous solutions in terms of the algorithm response to application requirements and dynamic adjustment with variation in underlying protocol performance.