Traffic-Aware Link Rate Adaptation for Multi-rate 802.11 Networks

Authors:
Xin Ao;Shengming Jiang;Huaqiang Yuan
Affiliations:
Engineering and Technology Institute, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, People's Republic of China;Marine Internet Laboratory (MILAB), College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China;Engineering and Technology Institute, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, People's Republic of China
Venue:
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Year:
2013

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Abstract

802.11 networks provide multi-rate capability to offer rate adaptability against the time-varying wireless channel. However, how to switch between the available rates has not been standardized. Existing rate adaptation (RA) solutions assume common transmission power and can only passively tune link rate to match the inferred channel condition via different methods. This simple attitude is neither flexible in traffic-aware link rate selection nor effective in energy conservation and spatial reuse since transmission power may be either too low to sustain the link rate or too high that results in unnecessary energy consumption and worse spatial reuse. Different from existing solutions, we think that link rate switch should be driven by traffic load and power control should be considered with rate adaptation together to conserve energy and increase spatial reuse. To this end, we propose a traffic-aware link rate adaptation scheme (TARA) via power control for multi-rate 802.11 networks. Its basic idea consists of a two-step procedure. Firstly, traffic load is sensed in the MAC layer to decide whether link rate should be increased or decreased for the next transmission. Afterwards, power control is carried out in the PHY layer to guarantee that the new link rate can be sustained while minimizing the transmission power. Extensive simulation results show that TARA outperforms typical existing schemes in terms of energy efficiency and throughput.