Data networks
An analysis of short-term fairness in wireless media access protocols (poster session)
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Performance evaluation of a fair backoff algorithm for IEEE 802.11 DFWMAC
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Analyzing the Short-Term Fairness of IEEE 802.11 in Wireless Multi-Hop Radio Networks
MASCOTS '02 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems
Performance analysis of exponential backoff
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Idle sense: an optimal access method for high throughput and fairness in rate diverse wireless LANs
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
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
Impact of interference and capture effects in 802.11 wireless networks on TCP
WitMeMo '06 Proceedings of the second international workshop on Wireless traffic measurements and modeling
Time-based fairness improves performance in multi-rate WLANs
ATEC '04 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Experience with an implementation of the Idle Sense wireless access method
CoNEXT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference
SBA: A Simple Backoff Algorithm for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
NETWORKING '09 Proceedings of the 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking Conference
Can user-level probing detect and diagnose common home-WLAN pathologies
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
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Even though literature that focuses on improving fairness among wireless stations in single hop IEEE 802.11 networks is rife, little is discussed on how to measure fairness in such networks when stations have unequal demands for resources. Typically, the performance of such protocols is measured assuming that all stations have equal resource demands under full channel saturation. But if these protocols are evaluated in real environments, where such assumption may not hold, measuring fairness with off the shelf metrics may give inaccurate and inadequate results. To account for these settings, we propose a demand-aware fairness index (DA-index). We argue that the suggested metric is a useful tool for investigating fairness in single-hop IEEE 802.11 networks where resource allocation is governed with backoff protocols. We demonstrate the merits of the proposed metrics with analysis and empirical evaluation.