How a multi-channel MAC can improve TCP fairness in IEEE 802.11 multi-hop networks
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It is well known that TCP experiences performance problems (unfairness and starvation) in multi-hop wireless networks. Such problems are often traced to the misbehavior of dynamic routing protocols in case of link failure. However, in this paper we show, through simulations, that unfairness and starvation of flows also take place with static routing; thus competition between TCP flows in a multihop TCP network has an unfair outcome, independently of the routing protocol involved. We also show that a simple multi-channel MAC is able to partially solve these problems.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007