Modeling TCP Reno performance: a simple model and its empirical validation
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Computer Methods for Mathematical Computations
Computer Methods for Mathematical Computations
Fairness and Capacity Trade-off in IEEE 802.11 WLANs
LCN '04 Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks
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
Temporal Fairness Provisioning in Multi-Rate Contention-Based 802.11e WLANs
WOWMOM '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing - Radio Link and Transport Protocol Engineering for Future-Generation Wireless Mobile Data Networks
TCP over Rate-Adaptive WLAN - An Analytical Model and its Simulative Verification
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Time-based fairness improves performance in multi-rate WLANs
ATEC '04 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A Cross-Layer Approach for Per-Station Fairness in TCP over WLANs
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
On the buffer occupancy of an IEEE 802.11 station in a hot-spot
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Providing per-station TCP fairness in WLANs using Weighted Window method
AsiaCSN '08 Proceedings of the Fifth IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks
Per-station throughput fairness in a WLAN hot-spot with TCP traffic
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
TCP Fairness Issues in IEEE 802.11 Networks: Problem Analysis and Solutions Based on Rate Control
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
TCP Vegas: end to end congestion avoidance on a global Internet
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Per-station throughput fairness in a WLAN hot-spot with TCP traffic
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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The 802.11 DCF protocol was devised to achieve per-station fairness; conversely, an harsh per-station unfairness occurs when DCF is loaded by TCP traffic. We aim at extending theoretical knowledge on this fairness issue and at restoring per-station fairness. The contribution of the paper is threefold. First, we introduce two findings: (i) changing the physical transmission rate of the stations does not impact the per-station fairness; (ii) packet queuing occurs in the uplink buffer of a station and has a non-negligible impact on the fairness. Second, we derive a model for evaluating fairness performance. Our model accounts for the effect of several parameters and scenarios that no other model captures in a single analytic framework. Third, and finally, we propose a technique to enforce fairness, which is easy to deploy in real systems, without having to modify existing devices. Experimental results obtained with commercial devices confirm the validity of our solution and findings. Albeit the focus of this paper is on per-station (throughput) fairness, our technique can be easily modified, e.g. to enforce time-based fairness, or per-direction or per-flow fairness.