2nd International ICST Workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks

Research Article

Improving Fairness in Multi-Hop Mesh Networks Using 802.11e

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WIOPT.2006.1666501,
        author={K.  Duffy and T.  Li  and D.  Malone and D.J.  Leith},
        title={Improving Fairness in Multi-Hop Mesh Networks Using 802.11e},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={RAWNET},
        year={2006},
        month={8},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/WIOPT.2006.1666501}
    }
    
  • K. Duffy
    T. Li
    D. Malone
    D.J. Leith
    Year: 2006
    Improving Fairness in Multi-Hop Mesh Networks Using 802.11e
    RAWNET
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2006.1666501
K. Duffy1, T. Li 1, D. Malone1, D.J. Leith1
  • 1: Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a tractable analytic model of throughput performance for general 802.11 multi-hop networks. We use this model to explore a number of fairness issues in 802.11 multi-hop networks that have a significant impact on performance and capacity for realistic traffic. Schemes using the functionality provided by 802.11e are proposed to mitigate this unfairness and their efficacy demonstrated.