Providing air-time usage fairness in IEEE 802.11 networks with the deficit transmission time (DTT) scheduler

Wireless Networks

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 481-495

  Garroppo, Rosario G ^a   Giordano, Stefano ^a   Lucetti, Stefano ^a   Tavanti, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Channel aware scheduler; IEEE 802.11; Max min fairness; Performance anomaly; Proportional fairness; Traffic flows isolation

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA TRANSFER; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SCHEDULING;

CHANNEL AWARE SCHEDULERS; MAX-MIN FAIRNESS; PERFORMANCE ANOMALY; PROPORTIONAL FAIRNESS; TRAFFIC FLOWS ISOLATION;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 34249677235     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11276-006-9201-7     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/.
2. Y. Cao, V.O.K. Li, Scheduling algorithms in broadband wireless networks, Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 89, Issue 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 76-87.
3. J. Hartwell, A. Fapojuwo, Modeling and Characterization of Frame Loss Process in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks, Proc. of IEEE VTC Fall 2004, Los Angeles, CA USA, Sept. 2004.
4. M. Heusse, F. Rousseau, G. Berger-Sabbatel, A. Duda, Performance Anomaly of 802.11b, Proc. of IEEE Infocom 2003, San Francisco, April 2003.
5. R.G. Garroppo, S. Giordano, S. Lucetti, F. Russo, IEEE 802.11b Performance Evaluation: Convergence of Theoretical, Simulation and Experimental Results, Proc. Networks 2004, vol. 1, pp. 405-410, Wien 2004.
6. B. Radunovic, J. Le Boudec, Rate Performance Objectives of Multihop Wireless Networks, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 334-349, Oct.-Dec. 2004.
7. R.G. Garroppo, S. Giordano, S. Lucetti, E. Valori, The Wireless Hierarchical Token Bucket: a Channel Aware Scheduler for 802.11 Networks, Proc. WoWMoM2005, June 2005, Giardini Naxos (ME), Italy.
8. M. Portoles, Z. Zhong, and S. Choi IEEE 802.11 Downlink Traffic Shaping Scheme For Multi-User Service Enhancement, Proc. IEEE PIMRC'03, Beijing, China, Sept. 7-10, 2003.
9. P. Bhagwat, A. Krishna, and S. Tripathi, Enhancing throughput over wireless LANs using channel state dependent packet scheduling, Proceedings of InfoCom '96, Mar. 1996, pp. 1133-1140.
10. P. Ramanathan and P. Agrawal, Adapting packet fair queueing algorithms to wireless networks, in ACM MOBICOM '98, Dallas, pp. 1-9.
11. J. Malinen, Host AP driver for Intersil Prism2/2.5/3, http://hostap.epitest.fi.
12. Y. Choi, S. Park, S. Choi, G. Lee, J. Lee, H. Jung, Enhancement of a WLAN-Based Internet Service, in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Vol. 10, N. 3, pp. 303-314, January 2005.
13. L. Wischhof, J.W. Lockwood, Packet Scheduling for Link-Sharing and Quality of Service Support in Wireless Local Area Networks, Technical Report WUCS-01-35, Applied Research Laboratory, Washington University in St. Louis, November 2001.
14. J. Tourrilhes, Wireless LAN resources for Linux, 19962003, http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/.
15. M.G. Arranz, R. Aguero, L. Munoz, P. Mahonen, Behavior of UDP-based applications over IEEE 802.11 wireless networks, Proc. of PIMRC 2001, San Diego, CA, USA 2001.
16. R.G. Garroppo, S. Giordano, S. Lucetti and E. Valori, TWHTB: A Transmission Time Based Channel-Aware Scheduler for 802.11 systems, Proc. of 1st Workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks (RAWNET 2005), Riva del Garda (TN), Italy, April 2005.
17. G. Tan, J. Guttag, Time-based Fairness Improves Performance in Multi-Rate WLANs, Proc. of USENIX 2004 Annual Technical Conference, July 2004, Boston (USA).
18. F.P. Kelly Charging and rate control for elastic traffic, European Transaction on Telecommunications, Volume 8, pp. 33-39, 1997.
19. J. Mo and J. Walrand, Fair End-to-End Window-Based Congestion Control, IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 556-567, Oct. 2000.
20. Li Bin Jiang, S.C. Liew, Proportional Fairness in Wireless LANs and Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Network Conference (WCNC), Mar. 2005.
21. B. Adamson, H. Greenwald, MGEN User's and Reference Guide, 2004, http://mgen.pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil/mgen.html.
22. R.G. Garroppo, S. Giordano, S. Lucetti and L. Tavanti, A measurement-based channel aware scheduler to lessen VoIP capacity degradation in 802.11 networks, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.