1. A cross-layer architecture to improve mobile host rate performance and to solve unfairness problem in WLANs
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Lei Zhang, Patrick Sénac, Michel Diaz, Emmanuel Lochin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT (FRANCE), Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - INRIA (FRANCE), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse - INSA (FRANCE), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace - ISAE-SUPAERO (FRANCE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE), Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille - USTL (FRANCE), Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT2J (FRANCE), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes (LAAS), Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Équipe Services et Architectures pour Réseaux Avancés (LAAS-SARA), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Toulouse Capitole (UT Capitole), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT), and Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse Capitole (UT Capitole)
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Computer science ,Access method ,Congestion control ,Réseaux et télécommunications ,Transport ,02 engineering and technology ,[INFO.INFO-NI]Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI] ,IEEE 802.11 ,0203 mechanical engineering ,Cross-layer ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Simulation Tcp ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Udp ,Buffer overflow ,Access network ,Wireless network ,business.industry ,Wireless Wlan ,ComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKS ,020302 automobile design & engineering ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,OSI model ,Network congestion ,Tfrc ,The Internet ,business ,Computer network - Abstract
International audience; 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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- 2013
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