On the smooting factor for rate adaption in ieee 802.11b/g mobile multi-hop networks

J Zhou, E Onur, ME Jacobsson, IGMM Niemegeers

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    Abstract

    IEEE 802.11b/g networks support multiple rates and rate adaptation mechanisms provide the ability to select the adequate rate intelligently. Prior work on the rate-adaptation focuses on stationary scenarios, such as mesh networks. The effect of the smoothing of the rate adaptation is not a well-studied topic in the mobile scenarios such as IEEE 802.11 multi-hop networks. In this paper, we use an experimental method to evaluate the one-hop performance and the routing decisions of a well-known rate adaptation mechanism referred as the SampleRate algorithm. In the experiments, the impact of the smoothing factor on the rate adaptation is analyzed based on throughput comparison. Smaller smoothing factors lead to larger throughput improvement and faster response when the channel is dynamic.
    Original languageUndefined/Unknown
    Title of host publicationSignal processing and communications applications conference
    Editors s.n.
    Place of Publications.l.
    PublisherIEEE Society
    Pages237-240
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4244-4435-9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    EventSignal processing and communications applications conference, antalya, turkije - s.l.
    Duration: 9 Apr 200911 Apr 2009

    Publication series

    Name
    PublisherIEEE

    Conference

    ConferenceSignal processing and communications applications conference, antalya, turkije
    Period9/04/0911/04/09

    Keywords

    • conference contrib. refereed
    • Conf.proc. > 3 pag

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