Friday, June 13, 2008

Congestion-Aware Rate Adaption in Wireless Networks: A Measurement-Driven Approach

P. Acharya, A. Sharma, E. Belding, K. Almeroth and K. Papagiannaki

Channel Busy Time is used to detect congestion.A functionality of the MadWifi driver is used to obtain CBT in real time. It is also detailed how the ill-implemented auto-rate fallback aggravates the congestion situation. A new rate adaptation mechanism is proposed and the overall performance is notoriously improved in congested networks.

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