Wide area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A case for context-aware TCP/IP
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Size-based scheduling to improve web performance
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Analysis of LAS scheduling for job size distributions with high variance
SIGMETRICS '03 Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
The War Between Mice and Elephants
The War Between Mice and Elephants
Differentiated Predictive Fair Service for TCP Flows
Differentiated Predictive Fair Service for TCP Flows
Performance analysis of LAS-based scheduling disciplines in a packet switched network
Proceedings of the joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Using the 802.11e EDCF to Achieve TCP Upload Fairness over WLAN Links
WIOPT '05 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks
Experimental evaluation of TCP performance and fairness in an 802.11e test-bed
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
VQ-RED: An Efficient Virtual Queue Management Approach to Improve Fairness in Infrastructure WLAN
LCN '05 Proceedings of the The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
TCP fairness issues in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs
Computer Communications
Improving flow level fairness and interactivity in WLANs using size-based scheduling policies
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Size-based scheduling to improve the performance of short TCP flows
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
On the uplink performance of TCP in multi-rate 802.11 WLANs
NETWORKING'11 Proceedings of the 10th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part II
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Cross-layer interaction of Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) of 802.11 MAC protocol and TCP transport protocol leads to two types of unfairness. In a mixed traffic scenario, short-lived TCP flows suffer from poor performance compared to the aggressive long-lived flows. Since the main source of Internet traffic is small file web transfers, this issue forms a major challenge in current WLANs which is called size-based unfairness. In addition, when sharing an access point bottleneck queue, upstream flows impede the performance of downstream flows resulting in direction-based unfairness. Proposed solutions in the literature mostly rely on size-based scheduling policies. However, each proposed method is able to solve any of these two mentioned aspects, none of them can provide both size-based and direction-based fairness in a unique solution. In this paper, we propose a novel queue management policy called Threshold-Based Least Attained Service-Selective Acknowledgment Filtering (TLAS-SAF). We show analytically and by simulation that TLAS-SAF is capable of providing both direction-based and size-based fairness and can be taken into account as a unique solution to be applied at access point buffers.