IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
Virtual Multi-AP Access for Transport-Level Quality Improvement in Wireless Local Area Networks with Hidden Stations
Summary :
The demand of using applications that assume bidirectional communication such as voice telephony and peer-to-peer using wireless stations has been increasing and especially, the rapid increase of uplink traffic from wireless terminals is expected. However, in uplink WLANs, the hidden-station problem remains to be solved. In this paper, we point out this hidden-station problem and clarify the following unfairness between UDP and TCP uplink flows: 1) the effect of collision caused by hidden-station relationship on throughput and 2) the instability of the throughput depending on the number of hidden stations. To solve these problems, we propose a virtual multi-AP access mechanism. Our mechanism first groups stations according to the hidden-station relationship and type of transport protocol they use then assigns a virtually isolated channel to each group, which enables STAs to communicate as if STAs in different groups are connected to different isolated APs (virtual APs: VAPs). It can mitigate the effect caused by collisions between hidden stations and eliminate the contention between UDP and TCP uplink flows. Its performance is shown through simulation.
- Publication
- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E93-D No.12 pp.3251-3259
- Publication Date
- 2010/12/01
- Publicized
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1361
- DOI
- 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.3251
- Type of Manuscript
- Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networking)
- Category
Authors
Keyword
Latest Issue
Copyrights notice of machine-translated contents
The copyright of the original papers published on this site belongs to IEICE. Unauthorized use of the original or translated papers is prohibited. See IEICE Provisions on Copyright for details.
Cite this
Copy
Koichi NISHIDE, Hiroyuki KUBO, Ryoichi SHINKUMA, Tatsuro TAKAHASHI, "Virtual Multi-AP Access for Transport-Level Quality Improvement in Wireless Local Area Networks with Hidden Stations" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E93-D, no. 12, pp. 3251-3259, December 2010, doi: 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.3251.
Abstract: The demand of using applications that assume bidirectional communication such as voice telephony and peer-to-peer using wireless stations has been increasing and especially, the rapid increase of uplink traffic from wireless terminals is expected. However, in uplink WLANs, the hidden-station problem remains to be solved. In this paper, we point out this hidden-station problem and clarify the following unfairness between UDP and TCP uplink flows: 1) the effect of collision caused by hidden-station relationship on throughput and 2) the instability of the throughput depending on the number of hidden stations. To solve these problems, we propose a virtual multi-AP access mechanism. Our mechanism first groups stations according to the hidden-station relationship and type of transport protocol they use then assigns a virtually isolated channel to each group, which enables STAs to communicate as if STAs in different groups are connected to different isolated APs (virtual APs: VAPs). It can mitigate the effect caused by collisions between hidden stations and eliminate the contention between UDP and TCP uplink flows. Its performance is shown through simulation.
URL: https://global.ieice.org/en_transactions/information/10.1587/transinf.E93.D.3251/_p
Copy
@ARTICLE{e93-d_12_3251,
author={Koichi NISHIDE, Hiroyuki KUBO, Ryoichi SHINKUMA, Tatsuro TAKAHASHI, },
journal={IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information},
title={Virtual Multi-AP Access for Transport-Level Quality Improvement in Wireless Local Area Networks with Hidden Stations},
year={2010},
volume={E93-D},
number={12},
pages={3251-3259},
abstract={The demand of using applications that assume bidirectional communication such as voice telephony and peer-to-peer using wireless stations has been increasing and especially, the rapid increase of uplink traffic from wireless terminals is expected. However, in uplink WLANs, the hidden-station problem remains to be solved. In this paper, we point out this hidden-station problem and clarify the following unfairness between UDP and TCP uplink flows: 1) the effect of collision caused by hidden-station relationship on throughput and 2) the instability of the throughput depending on the number of hidden stations. To solve these problems, we propose a virtual multi-AP access mechanism. Our mechanism first groups stations according to the hidden-station relationship and type of transport protocol they use then assigns a virtually isolated channel to each group, which enables STAs to communicate as if STAs in different groups are connected to different isolated APs (virtual APs: VAPs). It can mitigate the effect caused by collisions between hidden stations and eliminate the contention between UDP and TCP uplink flows. Its performance is shown through simulation.},
keywords={},
doi={10.1587/transinf.E93.D.3251},
ISSN={1745-1361},
month={December},}
Copy
TY - JOUR
TI - Virtual Multi-AP Access for Transport-Level Quality Improvement in Wireless Local Area Networks with Hidden Stations
T2 - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
SP - 3251
EP - 3259
AU - Koichi NISHIDE
AU - Hiroyuki KUBO
AU - Ryoichi SHINKUMA
AU - Tatsuro TAKAHASHI
PY - 2010
DO - 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.3251
JO - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
SN - 1745-1361
VL - E93-D
IS - 12
JA - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
Y1 - December 2010
AB - The demand of using applications that assume bidirectional communication such as voice telephony and peer-to-peer using wireless stations has been increasing and especially, the rapid increase of uplink traffic from wireless terminals is expected. However, in uplink WLANs, the hidden-station problem remains to be solved. In this paper, we point out this hidden-station problem and clarify the following unfairness between UDP and TCP uplink flows: 1) the effect of collision caused by hidden-station relationship on throughput and 2) the instability of the throughput depending on the number of hidden stations. To solve these problems, we propose a virtual multi-AP access mechanism. Our mechanism first groups stations according to the hidden-station relationship and type of transport protocol they use then assigns a virtually isolated channel to each group, which enables STAs to communicate as if STAs in different groups are connected to different isolated APs (virtual APs: VAPs). It can mitigate the effect caused by collisions between hidden stations and eliminate the contention between UDP and TCP uplink flows. Its performance is shown through simulation.
ER -
English
