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Sizing of IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs (WLANs), defined as the problem of finding the maximum number of users that can be supported, is essential for efficient application performance over WLANs. The usage of existing analytical models of 802.11 MAC in sizing requires a mapping from application load and performance to link-layer load and performance respectively, which we propose in this paper.We first evaluate analytical models of 802.11 MAC from the sizing perspective and then propose an approximate sizing method. We illustrate our method through an HTTP application and validate it through extensive ns-2 simulations which show that the number of users suggested by our tool are within 13% of those derived from simulations for a majority of the test cases.