An experimental evaluation of packet-level measurements of hidden traffic load

  • Authors:
  • José Núñez-Martínez;Marc Portoles-Comeras;Albert Cabellos-Aparicio;Daniel López-Rovira;Josep Mangues-Bafalluy;Jordi Domingo-Pascual

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Castelldefels, (Barcelona), Spain;Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Castelldefels, (Barcelona), Spain;Departament d’Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Departament d’Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Castelldefels, (Barcelona), Spain;Departament d’Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • WWIC'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Hidden traffic interference has been identified as an important source of network instabilities in dense wireless network deployments. This paper follows recent research results that relate packet loss and hidden traffic interference and explores, through extensive experimentation, the possibility to infer hidden traffic load using loss measurements in practical WLAN deployments. Furthermore, we present a preliminary tool able to provide online estimates of the hidden traffic load combining active and passive measurements.