Centralized feedback-driven rate allocation mechanism for CSMA/CA-based wireless mesh networks
Kamran Jamshaid, Paul A. S. Ward · 2008
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) based on commodity 802.11 radios exhibit extreme unfairness, including starvation, in the presence of backlogged traffic sources. While the underlying reasons for this performance degradation are well understood, yet only a few of the proposed solutions are compatible with the current generation of closed 802.11 firmware/hardware. Most existing proposals limit sources to their fair share through a distributed rate control mechanism, in the process incurring a significant overhead to enable such local computation of fair rates.