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SIGMETRICS '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
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MOJO: a distributed physical layer anomaly detection system for 802.11 WLANs
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Dynamic packet aggregation to solve performance anomaly in 802.11 wireless networks
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Distributed schemes for fair throughput in infrastructure-based IEEE 802.11 mesh networks
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Many companies, organizations and communities are providing wireless hotspots that provide networking access using 802.11b wireless networks. Since wireless networks are more sensitive to variations in bandwidth and environmental interference than wired networks, most networks support a number of transmission rates that have different error and bandwidth properties. Access points can communicate with multiple clients running at different rates, but this leads to unfair bandwidth allocation. If an access point communicates with a mix of clients using both 1mb/s and 11mb/s transmission rates, the faster clients are effectively throttled to 1mb/s as well. This happens because the 802.11 MAC protocol approximate "station fairness", with each station given an equal chance to access the media. We provide a solution to provide "rate proportional fairness", where the 11mb/s stations receive more bandwidth than the 1mb/s stations. Unlike previous solutions to this problem, our mechanism is easy to implement, works with common operating systems and requires no change to the MAC protocol or the stations.