A cross-layer TCP for providing fairness in wireless mesh networks

International Journal of Communication Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1611-1626

  Ye, Jin ^a,b   Wang, Jian Xin ^c   Huang, Jia Wei ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Materials   (China)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cross layer design; fairness; transport control protocol; wireless mesh network

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE THROUGHPUT; ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; CRITICAL PROBLEMS; CROSS-LAYER; CROSS-LAYER DESIGN; EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION; FAIR ALLOCATION; FAIRNESS; IEEE802.11E; NET WORK UTILIZATION; PRIORITY-BASED; TCP CONGESTION; TCP FLOWS; TRANSPORT CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS MESH;

STANDARDS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

MESH NETWORKING;

EID: 82255186479     PISSN: 10745351     EISSN: 10991131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dac.1238     Document Type: Article

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