Dynamic packet aggregation to solve performance anomaly in 802.11 wireless networks

  • Authors:
  • Tahiry Razafindralambo;Isabelle Guérin Lassous;Luigi Iannone;Serge Fdida

  • Affiliations:
  • CITI lab.- Project INRIA ARES, Villeurbanne, FRANCE;CITI lab.- Project INRIA ARES, Villeurbanne, FRANCE;LIP6/CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, FRANCE;LIP6/CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, FRANCE

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In the widely used 802.11 standard, the so-called performance anomaly is a well-known issue. Several works have tried to solve this problem by introducing mechanisms such as packet fragmentation, backoff adaptation, or packet aggregation during a fixed time interval. In this paper, we propose a novel approach solving the performance anomaly problem by packet aggregation using a dynamic time interval, which depends on the busy time of the wireless medium. Our solution differs from other proposition in the literature because of this dynamic time interval, which allows increasing fairness, reactivity, and in some cases efficiency. In this article, we emphasize the performance evaluation of our proposal.