Data networks
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
Rate Performance Objectives of Multihop Wireless Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
End-to-End Fair Bandwidth Allocation in Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
ICDCS '05 Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Interference-aware fair rate control in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Structural Unfairness in 802.11-basedWireless Mesh Networks
CNSR '07 Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research
TCP with gateway adaptive pacing for multihop wireless networks with Internet connectivity
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Understanding congestion control in multi-hop wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Achieving Global End-to-End Maxmin in Multihop Wireless Networks
ICDCS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Centralized feedback-driven rate allocation mechanism for CSMA/CA-based wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
The nominal capacity of wireless mesh networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
Redefinition of max-min fairness in multi-hop wireless networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications - Part 1
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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The classical max-min rate allocation is a commonly used fairness criterion in wired networks. Its implications, however, are not well understood in the context of wireless networks. In this paper we outline various considerations that govern max-min rate allocation in 802.11-based Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). Such considerations assume importance because WMNs exhibit extreme unfairness, including starvation, with backlogged TCP flows. We show that it is possible to achieve approximate max-min rate allocation simply by rate limiting the aggregate capacity of the network. Such rate limiting can be performed centrally at traffic aggregation points. In this context we propose a rate-based scheduler that can be implemented at gateway routers. Simulations show that our proposed controller can improve the fairness index by over two-fold compared with networks without any rate limiting, while maintaining upwards of 80% network throughput achievable with a perfect scheduler.