Li, Tianji and Leith, Douglas J. (2008) Adaptive Buffer Sizing for TCP Flows In 802.lle WLANs. Communications and Networking in China, 2008. ChinaCom 2008. Third International Conference on. ISBN 978-1-4244-2373-6 . pp. 7-11.

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Abstract

We consider the provision of Access Point buffers in WLANs. We first demonstrate that the default use of static buffers in WLANs leads to either undesirable channel underutilisation or unnecessary high delays, which motivates the use of dynamic buffer sizing. Although adaptive algorithms have been proposed for wired Internet, a number of fundamental new issues arise in WLANs which necessitates new algorithms to be designed. These new issues include the fact that channel bandwidth is time-varying, the mean service rate is dependent on the level of channel contention, and packet inter-service times vary stochastically due to the random nature of CSMA/CA operation. We propose an adaptive sizing algorithms which is demonstrated to be able to maintain high throughput efficiency whilst achieving low delay.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Adaptive Buffer Sizing; TCP Flows; 802.lle WLANs; Internet; time-varying channels; transport protocols; wireless LAN;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
Item ID:	2211
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4684957
Depositing User:	Professsor Douglas Leith
Date Deposited:	26 Oct 2010 14:40
Journal or Publication Title:	Communications and Networking in China, 2008. ChinaCom 2008. Third International Conference on. ISBN 978-1-4244-2373-6
Publisher:	IEEE
Refereed:	Yes
Funders:	This work is supported by Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology and Science Foundation Ireland Grant 03/IN3/I396.
URI:	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhom...
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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