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Achieving End-to-end Fairness in 802.11e Based Wireless Multi-Hop Mesh Networks Without Coordination

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Achieving End-to-end Fairness in 802.11e Based Wireless Multi-Hop Mesh Networks Without Coordination
Abstract To mitigate the damaging impacts caused by interference and hidden terminals, it has been proposed to use orthogonal channels in wireless multi-hop mesh networks. We demonstrate however that even if these issues are completely eliminated with perfectly assigned channels, gross unfairness can still exist amongst competing flows which traverse multiple hops. We propose the use of 802.11e’s TXOP mechanism to restore/enforce fairness. The proposed scheme is simple, implementable using off-the-shelf devices and fully decentralised (requires no message passing). Keywords Medium access control (MAC) · Transmission control protocol (TCP) · Wireless mesh networks · IEEE 802.11 · IEEE 802.11e · Max-min fairness
Tianji Li, Douglas J. Leith, Venkataramana Badarla
Added 14 May 2011
Updated 14 May 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where MONET
Authors Tianji Li, Douglas J. Leith, Venkataramana Badarla, David Malone, Qizhi Cao
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