Size-based and direction-based TCP fairness issues in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.
Cross-layer interaction of Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) of 802.11 MAC protocol and TCP transport protocol leads to two types of unfairness. In a mixed traffic scenario, short-lived TCP flows suffer from poor performance compare to the aggressive long-lived flows. Since the main source of...
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Hindawi Publishing Corp.
2010
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16734/1/Size.pdf |