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A Method to Improve Adaptability of the Minstrel MAC Rate Control Algorithm

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Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2010)

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The MAC (Media Access Control) layer protocol in wireless networks dynamically changes its transmission rate to adapt transmission to channel conditions. Such dynamic adaptations can improve per-hop performance in wireless networks and therefore increase the network throughput. One of the best and commonly used rate control algorithms is Minstrel implemented in the MadWifi driver in Linux. In this paper we present a comprehensive evaluation of the Minstrel rate control adaptation. We show that network throughput could be further improved if the freshness level of throughput measurements currently used in Minstrel was dynamically adapted to channel conditions. This evaluation of the impact of measurement freshness on transmission rate adaptation was carried out in our platform for controllable and repeatable experiments.

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  1. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia

    Wei Yin, Jadwiga Indulska & Konstanty Bialkowski

  2. National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia

    Wei Yin, Peizhao Hu, Jadwiga Indulska & Konstanty Bialkowski

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  1. School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 710072, Xi’an, China

    Zhiwen Yu  & Xingshe Zhou  & 

  2. Institute ofTechnology, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario, L1H 7K4, Oshawa, ON, Canada

    Ramiro Liscano

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 01854, Lowell, MA, USA

    Guanling Chen

  4. Telecommunication Network and Services Department, Institute TELECOM SudParis, 9 rue Charles Fourier, 91011, Evry Cedex, France

    Daqing Zhang

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Yin, W., Hu, P., Indulska, J., Bialkowski, K. (2010). A Method to Improve Adaptability of the Minstrel MAC Rate Control Algorithm. In: Yu, Z., Liscano, R., Chen, G., Zhang, D., Zhou, X. (eds) Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing. UIC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6406. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16355-5_39

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