Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Fluid-based analysis of a network of AQM routers supporting TCP flows with an application to RED
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
A rate-adaptive MAC protocol for multi-Hop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Combined tuning of RF power and medium access control for WLANS
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MOMUC '99)
Opportunistic media access for multirate ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Conserving Transmission Power in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
ICNP '01 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Network Protocols
MiSer: an optimal low-energy transmission strategy for IEEE 802.11a/h
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and 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
SIGMETRICS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Robust rate adaptation for 802.11 wireless networks
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Energy-conservation in 802.11 WLANs via transmission-strategy-aware airtime allocation
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Traffic-Aware Link Rate Adaptation for Multi-rate 802.11 Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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Energy efficiency is one of the most important concerns in wireless networks because wireless clients usually have limited battery power. The aim of this work is to reduce energy consumption by exploiting multi-rate diversity in 802.11 wireless networks. An important observation is that ''probabilistic rate combination'' in transmission can significantly reduce power consumption. We formulate the energy efficient rate combination as a non-convex optimization problem. A non-cooperative rate adaptation scheme is presented to reduce power consumption without information exchange. Each node selects rate combination strategy and computes its transmission probability based on the weighted average interface queue length. Due to the well-known ''rate anomaly'' problem, selfish nodes may choose to transmit at a lower rate free ride from the other nodes. To mitigate this problem, we propose a joint consecutive packet transmission (CPT) and contention window adaptation mechanism (CWA). We prove the stability of our proposed algorithm, and to the best of our knowledge, this is the first control theoretical analysis on 802.11 ''multi-rate'' wireless networks. Simulation results show that the probabilistic rate combination can greatly save battery power, even up to 700% times compared with standard 802.11a/h protocol.