TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 1): the protocols
TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 1): the protocols
Modeling TCP Reno performance: a simple model and its empirical validation
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Dynamic tuning of the IEEE 802.11 protocol to achieve a theoretical throughput limit
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A capacity analysis for the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol
Wireless Networks
Closed queueing network models of interacting long-lived TCP flows
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A stochastic model of TCP/IP with stationary random losses
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A queueing model for HTTP traffic over IEEE 802.11 WLANs
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Performance analysis under finite load and improvements for multirate 802.11
Computer Communications
Comprehensive performance analysis of a TCP session over a wireless fading link with queueing
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Understanding the effect of access point density on wireless LAN performance
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Improving flow level fairness and interactivity in WLANs using size-based scheduling policies
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
TCP performance optimization in multi-cell wireless local area networks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
COMSNETS'09 Proceedings of the First international conference on COMmunication Systems And NETworks
Analytical models for energy consumption in infrastructure WLAN STAs carrying TCP traffic
COMSNETS'10 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on COMmunication systems and NETworks
Experimental validation of analytical performance models for IEEE 802.11 networks
COMSNETS'10 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on COMmunication systems and NETworks
TCP performance optimization in multi-cell WLANs
Performance Evaluation
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
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The growing popularity of the 802.11 standard for building local wireless networks has generated an extensive literature on the performance modelling of its MAC protocol. However, most of the available studies focus on the throughput analysis in saturation conditions, while very little has been done on investigating the interactions between the 802.11 MAC protocol and closed-loop transport protocols such as TCP. This paper addresses this issue by developing an analytical model to compute the stationary probability distribution of the number of backlogged nodes in a WLAN in the presence of persistent TCP-controlled download and upload data transfers, and embedding the network backlog distribution in the MAC protocol modelling. A large set of experiments conducted in a real network validates the model correctness for a wide range of configurations. A particular emphasis is devoted to investigate and explain the TCP fairness characteristics. Our analytical model and the supporting experimental outcomes demonstrate that using default settings for the capacity of devices' output queues provides a fair allocation of channel bandwidth to the TCP connections, independently of the number of downstream and upstream flows. Furthermore, we show that the TCP total throughput does not degrade by increasing the number of wireless stations.