A high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless routing
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Routing in multi-radio, multi-hop wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 10th 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
TCP with adaptive pacing for multihop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 6th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
ATP: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
TCP Unfairness in ad hoc wireless networks and a neighborhood RED solution
Wireless Networks - Special issue: Selected papers from ACM MobiCom 2003
Internet clean-slate design: what and why?
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Throughput efficiency in body sensor networks: A clean-slate approach
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A Clean Slate Architecture Design for VANETs
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Adaptive multihop scheduling for IEEE 802.11s multiradio cognitive wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 8th ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
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In this paper, we introduce a clean-slate architecture for improving the delivery of data packets in IEEE 802.11 wireless mesh networks. Opposed to the rigid TCP/IP layer architecture which exhibits serious deficiencies in such networks, we propose a unitary layer approach that combines both routing and transport functionalities in a single layer. The new Mesh Transmission Layer (MTL) incorporates cross-interacting routing and transport modules for a reliable data delivery based on the loss probabilities of wireless links. Due to the significant drawbacks of standard TCP over IEEE 802.11, we particularly focus on the transport module, proposing a pure rate-based approach for transmitting data packets according to the current contention in the network. By considering the IEEE 802.11 spatial reuse constraint and employing a novel acknowledgment scheme, the new transport module improves both goodput and fairness in wireless mesh networks. In a comparative performance study, we show that MTL achieves up to 48% more goodput and up to 100% less packet drops than TCP/IP, while maintaining excellent fairness results.