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TCP performance over Wi-Fi: joint impact of buffer and channel losses
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posted on 2016-05-01, 00:00 authored by Shiva PokhrelShiva Pokhrel, M Panda, H L Vu, M MandjesWe propose an analytical model for a Wi-Fi network acting as a last-mile Internet access with multiple long-lived TCP connections on both the up and down links. Our model considers the joint impact of buffer losses at the access point, contention at the medium access control layer, and packet losses due to the wireless channel being erroneous. We show that the model accurately quantifies the probability of an arbitrary TCP packet being discarded, and the total throughput obtained on the up and down links. Furthermore, quantitative insights can be gained into the throughput that long-lived TCP flows achieve under the joint impact of all aforementioned types of losses. In particular, we find that the wireless channel errors and buffer overflows both lead to throughput unfairness, but that they do so in the opposite direction on the up and down links, respectively. We demonstrate that this insight can be exploited so as to significantly mitigate the throughput unfairness without compromising the total obtainable network throughput.
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Journal
IEEE transactions on mobile computingVolume
15Issue
5Pagination
1279 - 1291Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersLocation
Piscataway, N.J.Publisher DOI
ISSN
1536-1233Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2015, IEEEUsage metrics
Keywords
WLANcongestion controlfixed pointwireless errorsunfairnessTCPbandwidth-delay productScience & TechnologyTechnologyComputer Science, Information SystemsTelecommunicationsComputer ScienceIEEE 802.11 WLANTHROUGHPUT ANALYSISIEEE-802.11 WLANSFAIRNESSMODELNETWORKSVERSIONSINTERNETISSUESLINKDistributed Computing
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