MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
A new model for packet scheduling in multihop wireless networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Achieving MAC layer fairness in wireless packet networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Capacity of Ad Hoc wireless networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A topology-independent fair queueing model in ad hoc wireless networks
ICNP '00 Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Network Protocols
Impact of interference on multi-hop wireless network performance
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
End-to-end performance and fairness in multihop wireless backhaul networks
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The Impact of Multihop Wireless Channel on TCP Performance
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Starvation mitigation through multi-channel coordination in CSMA multi-hop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Interference-aware fair rate control in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Distributed Flow Control and Medium Access in Multihop Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
TCP with gateway adaptive pacing for multihop wireless networks with Internet connectivity
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
The nominal capacity of wireless mesh networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
Gateway-assisted max-min rate allocation for wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Intelligent rate control for supporting real-time traffic in WLAN mesh networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Mechanisms for centralized flow rate control in 802.11-based wireless mesh networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Fair packet scheduling in Wireless Mesh Networks
Ad Hoc Networks
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Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) based on commodity 802.11 radios exhibit extreme unfairness, including starvation, in the presence of backlogged traffic sources. While the underlying reasons for this performance degradation are well understood, yet only a few of the proposed solutions are compatible with the current generation of closed 802.11 firmware/hardware. Most existing proposals limit sources to their fair share through a distributed rate control mechanism, in the process incurring a significant overhead to enable such local computation of fair rates. In prior work we validated the feasibility of centralized rate control in WMNs, assuming knowledge of network topology and link interference. In this work we remove this requirement and propose a zero-overhead centralized rate controller. This controller can be implemented at traffic aggregation points such as gateway routers. Its response is driven by a feedback-based mechanism, allowing it to adapt to changes in network and traffic conditions. Simulations show that our controller can improve the fairness metrics by a factor of 3 over networks without any rate control, and is within 2% of the fairness metrics achieved by a centralized controller with omniscient knowledge of network topology and link interference.