MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Achieving MAC layer fairness in wireless packet networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Distributed fair scheduling in a wireless LAN
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Distributed multi-hop scheduling and medium access with delay and throughput constraints
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Cooperative packet scheduling via pipelining in 802.11 wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
Feasibility study of mesh networks for all-wireless offices
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Jigsaw: solving the puzzle of enterprise 802.11 analysis
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Robust rate adaptation for 802.11 wireless networks
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Embracing wireless interference: analog network coding
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Harnessing exposed terminals in wireless networks
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Designing high performance enterprise Wi-Fi networks
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Zigzag decoding: combating hidden terminals in wireless networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Interactive wifi connectivity for moving vehicles
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Taking the sting out of carrier sense: interference cancellation for wireless LANs
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Online estimation of RF interference
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
Non-intrusive, dynamic interference detection for 802.11 networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Connectivity brokerage: from coexistence to collaboration
RWS'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE conference on Radio and wireless symposium
Using the wired internet as a control channel for residential wireless LANs
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Dyson: an architecture for extensible wireless LANs
USENIXATC'10 Proceedings of the 2010 USENIX conference on USENIX annual technical conference
CSMA/CN: carrier sense multiple access with collision notification
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The spaces between us: setting and maintaining boundaries in wireless spectrum access
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Pushing the envelope of indoor wireless spatial reuse using directional access points and clients
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Listen (on the frequency domain) before you talk
Hotnets-IX Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Proceedings of the 13th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Orthogonal signaling-based queue status investigation method in IEEE 802.11
Computer Communications
PIE in the sky: online passive interference estimation for enterprise WLANs
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
An MIM-aware association control scheme for openflow access points in NOX architectures
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies
TCP performance optimization in multi-cell WLANs
Performance Evaluation
Coordinated architecture for wireless home networks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Home networks
FLUID: improving throughputs in enterprise wireless lans through flexible channelization
MobiCom '11 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
XPRESS: a cross-layer backpressure architecture for wireless multi-hop networks
MobiCom '11 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
CRMA: collision-resistant multiple access
MobiCom '11 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
No time to countdown: migrating backoff to the frequency domain
MobiCom '11 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
QoS provisioning for large-scale multi-ap WLANs
Ad Hoc Networks
CLAP: coordinated lightweight APs architecture for wireless IPTV service in home networks
Proceedings of the 6th ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
OmniVoice: a mobile voice solution for small-scale enterprises
MobiHoc '11 Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
Novel association control strategies for multicasting in relay-enabled WLANs
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Low-complexity scheduling for wireless networks
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM international symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
Order matters: transmission reordering in wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
CSMA/CN: carrier sense multiple access with collision notification
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
JMB: scaling wireless capacity with user demands
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Demo: programming enterprise WLANs with odin
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Towards programmable enterprise WLANS with Odin
Proceedings of the first workshop on Hot topics in software defined networks
JMB: scaling wireless capacity with user demands
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special october issue SIGCOMM '12
Demo: programming enterprise WLANs with odin
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special october issue SIGCOMM '12
One strategy does not serve all: tailoring wireless transmission strategies to user profiles
Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Bringing cross-layer MIMO to today's wireless LANs
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
Symphony: cooperative packet recovery over the wired backbone in enterprise WLANs
Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Mobile computing & networking
DOMINO: relative scheduling in enterprise wireless LANs
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Peer-assisted video on-demand streaming system in practical WiFi-based mobile opportunistic networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
RobinHood: sharing the happiness in a wireless jungle
Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Joint Transmit Power Control and Rate Adaptation for Wireless LANs
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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Enterprise WLANs have made a dramatic shift towards centralized architectures in the recent past. The reasons for such a change have been ease of management and better design of various control and security functions. The data path of WLANs, however, continues to use the distributed, random-access model, as defined by the popular DCF mechanism of the 802.11 standard. While theoretical results indicate that a centrally scheduled data path can achieve higher efficiency than its distributed counterpart, the likely complexity of such a solution has inhibited practical consideration. In this paper, we take a fresh, implementation and deployment oriented, view in understanding data path choices in enterprise WLANs. We perform extensive measurements to characterize the impact of various design choices, like scheduling granularity on the performance of a centralized scheduler, and identify regions where such a centralized scheduler can provide the best gains. Our detailed evaluation with scheduling prototypes deployed on two different wireless testbeds indicates that DCF is quite robust in many scenarios, but centralization can play a unique role in 1) mitigating hidden terminals - scenarios which may occur infrequently, but become pain points when they do and 2) exploiting exposed terminals - scenarios which occur more frequently, and limit the potential of successful concurrent transmissions. Motivated by these results, we design and implement CENTAUR - a hybrid data path for enterprise WLANs, that combines the simplicity and ease of DCF with a limited amount of centralized scheduling from a unique vantage point. Our mechanisms do not require client cooperation and can support legacy 802.11 clients.