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Telecommunication Systems
Published in: Telecommunication Systems 3/2013

01-07-2013

A cross-layer architecture to improve mobile host rate performance and to solve unfairness problem in WLANs

Authors: Lei Zhang, Patrick Sénac, Emmanuel Lochin, Michel Diaz

Published in: Telecommunication Systems | Issue 3/2013

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Abstract

The evolution of the Internet has been mainly promoted in recent years by the emergence and proliferation of wireless access networks towards a global ambient and pervasive network accessed from mobile devices. These new access networks have introduced new MAC layers independently of the legacy “wire-oriented” protocols that are still at the heart of the protocol stacks of the end systems. This principle of isolation and independence between layers advocated by the OSI model has its drawbacks of maladjustment between new access methods and higher-level protocols built on the assumption of a wired Internet. In this paper, we introduce and deliver solutions for several pathological communication behaviors resulting from the maladjustment between WLAN MAC and higher layer standard protocols such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP. Specially, based on an efficient analytical model for WLANs bandwidth estimation, we address in this paper the two following issues: (1) Performance degradation due to the lack of flow control between the MAC and upper layer resulting in potential MAC buffer overflow; (2) Unfair bandwidth share issues between various type of flows. We show how these syndromes can be efficiently solved from neutral “cross layer” interactions which entail no changes in the considered protocols and standards.
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Appendix
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Footnotes
1
In this section, we point out that we always refer to data acknowledgement packets (ACK) from the transport layer.
 
2
We choose to set K=2 as most of TCP stacks today enable delayed acknowledgments by default. Indeed, both Windows XP and Linux use this value with a maximum delay of 200 ms for Windows and 100 ms for Linux. These values are tunable from the key registry entry TcpAckFrequency in Windows and through setsockopt() and TCP_QUICKACK option in Linux.
 
3
Although this study lays on IEEE 801.11b standard, the analytical model and every derived proposals still hold for faster technologies such as IEEE 801.11g.
 
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Metadata
Title
A cross-layer architecture to improve mobile host rate performance and to solve unfairness problem in WLANs
Authors
Lei Zhang
Patrick Sénac
Emmanuel Lochin
Michel Diaz
Publication date
01-07-2013
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Telecommunication Systems / Issue 3/2013
Print ISSN: 1018-4864
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9451
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-013-9702-5

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