On the rate adaptation for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks

Authors:
Shaohe Lv;Xiaodong Wang;Xingming Zhou
Affiliations:
National Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Processing, National University of Defense Technology, ChangSha, Hunan 410073, China;National Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Processing, National University of Defense Technology, ChangSha, Hunan 410073, China;National Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Processing, National University of Defense Technology, ChangSha, Hunan 410073, China
Venue:
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Year:
2010

Citing 8
Cited 1

A rate-adaptive MAC protocol for multi-Hop wireless networks

Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Opportunistic media access for multirate ad hoc networks

Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Link-level measurements from an 802.11b mesh network

Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
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
Exploiting medium access diversity in rate adaptive wireless LANs

Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Hybrid rate control for IEEE 802.11

Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobility management & wireless access protocols
Robust rate adaptation for 802.11 wireless networks

Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Channel quality estimation and rate adaptation for cellular mobile radio

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Link scheduling in wireless networks with successive interference cancellation

Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Rate adaptation (RA) is a mechanism to choose transmission rate based on the dynamic channel quality in wireless networks. This paper studied the adaptation algorithm run solely at the sender-side in IEEE 802.11 networks. The key insight is the inference discrepancy in inferring the relative order of transmission rates with respect to the expected performance, which indicates that one cannot always reach the correct order based solely on the channel state information collected by the sender itself. The consequence is wrong rate decision and significant performance loss. Therefore, we present a new RA structure to mitigate such effect by using a novel component, rate testing. Further, by employing the active measurement, a lightweight and effective testing mechanism, SFB, short frame burst, is proposed to detect and filter out the unsuitable transmission rate. Finally, an active measurement-based rate adaptation mechanism (AMRA) is designed and implemented. The experimental results show that AMRA outperforms many other well-known RA solutions in most scenarios.