Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A rate-adaptive MAC protocol for multi-Hop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A capacity analysis for the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol
Wireless Networks
Goodput Analysis and Link Adaptation for IEEE 802.11a Wireless LANs
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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
Methods for restoring MAC layer fairness in IEEE 802.11 networks with physical layer capture
REALMAN '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality
Multi-channel link-level measurements in 802.11 mesh networks
Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing
Robust rate adaptation for 802.11 wireless networks
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Enhanced wireless mesh networking for ns-2 simulator
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
An experimental study on the capture effect in 802.11a networks
Proceedings of the second ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
Efficient channel-aware rate adaptation in dynamic environments
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
SARA: Stochastic Automata Rate Adaptation for IEEE 802.11 Networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
BEWARE: Background traffic-aware rate adaptation for IEEE 802.11
WOWMOM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Cross-layer wireless bit rate adaptation
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
Accurate hidden Markov modeling of packet losses in indoor 802.11 networks
IEEE Communications Letters
Rate adaptation using acknowledgement feedback in finite-state Markov channels with collisions
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
ERA: effective rate adaptation for WLANs
NETWORKING'08 Proceedings of the 7th international IFIP-TC6 networking conference on AdHoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
Rate adaptation with NAK-aided loss differentiation in 802.11 wireless networks
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Threshold optimization for rate adaptation algorithms in IEEE 802.11 WLANs
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Rate adaptation games in wireless LANs: nash equilibrium and price of anarchy
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Rate Adaptation in Congested Wireless Networks through Real-Time Measurements
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Smart sender: a practical rate adaptation algorithm for multirate IEEE 802.11 WLANs
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications - Part 1
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Rate control algorithms for commercial 802.11 devices strongly rely on packet losses for their adaptation. As a result, they give poor performance in dense networks because they are not able to distinguish packet losses related to channel error from packet losses due to collision. In this paper, we evaluate automatic rate adaptation algorithms in IEEE 802.11 dense networks. A certain number of works in the literature address this problem, but they demand modifications of the IEEE standard, or depend on some special feature not available in off-the-shelf devices. In this context, we propose a new automatic rate control algorithm which is simple, easy to implement, standards-compliant, and well-suited for crowded 802.11 networks. Our approach consists of measuring the contention level, inferring the collision probability, and choosing transmission rates which maximize throughput. Results from simulation and real experiments show throughput improvement of up to 100% from our mechanism.