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The Performance of the Adaptive Aggregation Mechanism (AAM) Under Mixed Traffic Loads

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The adaptive packet aggregation algorithm (AAM) has been shown to have a superior performance over the first-in first-out (FIFO) algorithm in terms of the throughput and delay (Deng and Davis in International conference on wireless communications and signal processing 2013 (WCSP2013), Hangzhou, China, pp 449–504, 2013; 20th IEEE symposium on communications and vehicular technology in the Benelux 2013 (IEEE SCVT 2013), Namur, 2013). In this paper, we will show that when compared with the FIFO and smallest-size first-served algorithms, the AAM algorithm has the best performances in terms of the trade-off between the overhead saving and the average delay under mixed traffic loads in wireless LANs. The simulation results show that the AAM algorithm produces the largest average aggregate packet size.

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  1. School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 4, Section 2, North Jianshe Road, Chengdu City, 610054, China

    Jianhua Deng

  2. Communications Network Research Institute (CNRI), Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street, Dublin 8, Ireland

    Mark Davis

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Deng, J., Davis, M. The Performance of the Adaptive Aggregation Mechanism (AAM) Under Mixed Traffic Loads. Wireless Pers Commun 79, 1733–1739 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1955-0

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