DocumentCode :
952679
Title :
Throughput Analysis and Measurements in IEEE 802.11 WLANs with TCP and UDP Traffic Flows
Author :
Bruno, Raffaele ; Conti, Marco ; Gregori, Enrico
Author_Institution :
Italian Nat. Res. Council (CNR), Pisa
Volume :
7
Issue :
2
fYear :
2008
Firstpage :
171
Lastpage :
186
Abstract :
There is a vast literature on the throughput analysis of the IEEE 802.11 media access control (MAC) protocol. However, very little has been done on investigating the interplay between the collision avoidance mechanisms of the 802.11 MAC protocol and the dynamics of upper layer transport protocols. In this paper, we tackle this issue from an analytical, simulative, and experimental perspective. Specifically, we develop Markov chain models to compute the distribution of the number of active stations in an 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) when long-lived transmission control protocol (TCP) connections compete with finite-load user datagram protocol (UDP) flows. By embedding these distributions in the MAC protocol modeling, we derive approximate but accurate expressions of the TCP and UDP throughput. We validate the model accuracy through performance tests carried out in a real WLAN for a wide range of configurations. Our analytical model and the supporting experimental outcomes show that 1) the total TCP throughput is basically independent of the number of open TCP connections and the aggregate TCP traffic can be equivalently modeled as two saturated flows; and 2) in the saturated regime, n UDP flows obtain about n times the aggregate throughput achieved by the TCP flows, which is independent of the overall number of persistent TCP connections.
Keywords :
Markov processes; access protocols; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 WLAN; MAC protocol; Markov chain model; collision avoidance mechanism; finite-load UDP traffic flow; long-lived TCP traffic flow; media access control; throughput analysis; transmission control protocol; user datagram protocol; wireless local area network;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1536-1233
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TMC.2007.70718
Filename :
4359944
Link To Document :
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