IEICE Trans - Distributed Access Time Control for Per-Station Fairness in Infrastructure WLANs

Distributed Access Time Control for Per-Station Fairness in Infrastructure WLANs

Dong-Young KIM
Eun-Chan PARK
Chong-Ho CHOI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E89-B No.9 pp.2572-2579
Publication Date: 2006/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.9.2572
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Terrestrial Radio Communications
Keyword:
wireless LAN, TCP, fairness,

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Summary:
Fairness among uplink and downlink TCP flows can not be supported in infrastructure IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs using the distributed coordination function (DCF). In order to resolve this problem, we propose the Distributed Access Time Control (DATC) scheme, in which each station controls the rates of its TCP flows based on channel access time. The DATC scheme can provide per-station fairness even when the number and direction of flows in each station are different. This scheme can be simply implemented in mobile stations without having to modify the access points. The properties of the proposed scheme are investigated and its effectiveness is verified through simulations.