Size-Based and Direction-Based TCP Fairness Issues in IEEE 802.11 WLANs

<p/> <p>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 compared to the aggressive long-lived flows. Sinc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Othman Mohamed, Khademi Naeem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2010-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Online Access:http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2010/818190