Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Performance anomaly of 802.11b

Martin Heusse, Franck Rousseau, Gilles Berger-Sabbatel, Andrzej Duda

When a slow station shares the channel with fast stations, all the stations experiment low throughput. This problem is alleviated when using TCP, since the lost packets prevent that the TCP windows fully open.

This reference is also important. It is the one to cite when referring to short-term unfairness in DCF.

An analysis of short-term fairness in wireless media
access protocols,

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