Mobile TFRC: a congestion control for WLANs

Author

Zhang, Lei ; Senac, Patrick ; Lochin, Emmanuel ; Diaz, Michel

Author_Institution

ISAE - LAAS, Univ. de Toulouse, Toulouse

fYear

2008

fDate

23-26 June 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Based on an identification and evaluation of the subtle counterproductive interactions between the WLANs MAC layer and the transport layer, this paper shows a new approach towards congestion control for WLANs. We introduce a specialization of TFRC (MTFRC: mobile TFRC), which is adapted to wireless access networks. This TFRC specialization requires only slight changes to the standard TFRC protocol. Simulation results show substantial improvements for applications over TFRC in scenarios where the bottleneck situates on the MAC layer of the mobile nodes.

Keywords

access protocols; mobile radio; radio access networks; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; wireless LAN; WLAN MAC layer; congestion control; mobile TFRC protocol; transport layer; wireless access network; Access protocols; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Buffer overflow; Delay; Linear discriminant analysis; Multiaccess communication; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2008. WoWMoM 2008. 2008 International Symposium on a

Conference_Location

Newport Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2099-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2100-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOWMOM.2008.4594867

Filename

4594867