Bulk file download throughput in a single station WLAN with nonzero propagation delay

Author

Pradeepa, B.K. ; Kuri, Joy

Author_Institution

Centre for Electron. Design & Technol., Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore, India

fYear

2011

fDate

28-30 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We analyze TCP-controlled bulk file transfers in a single station WLAN with nonzero propagation delay between the file server and the WLAN. Our approach is to model the flow of packets as a closed queueing network (BCMP network) with 3 service centres, one each for the Access Point and the STA, and the third for the propagation delay. The service rates of the first two are obtained by analyzing the WLAN MAC. Simulations show a very close match with the theory.

Keywords

access protocols; queueing theory; radiowave propagation; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; wireless LAN; TCP-controlled bulk file transfer; WLAN MAC; access point; bulk file download throughput; file server; nonzero propagation delay; queueing network; single station WLAN; Analytical models; Delay; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Propagation delay; Servers; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Access Points; BCMP Network; Closed Queueing Network; Propagation Delay; RTPD; RTT; TCP; WLAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (NCC), 2011 National Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-090-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCC.2011.5734770

Filename

5734770