• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권10호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2010

무선 패킷 망에서 무선 자원과 무선 단말의 전력을 얼마나 효율적으로 사용할 수 있는가 하는 것은 무선 패킷 망 보급을 위한 기본 해결 과제이다. 이에 단말의 전력 소모를 줄이면서 무선 망 용량 (capacity)을 증가시키는 기법으로 전송 파워 조절 기법이 주목받고 있다. 무선 패킷 망에 전송 파워 조절 기법을 적용할 때 전송 파워의 세기에 따라 공평한 전송성능을 보장하지 못하고 기아상태에 이르는 전송 불공평성 문제가 지금까지 깊이 연구되지 않고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 전송 파워의 세기에 따른 성능 불공평성을 경쟁자 수의 차이에 의한 불공평한 매체 접근 기회에 있음을 분석을 통해 보이고 불공평성을 해결하기 위한 간단한 물리-맥 (PHY-MAC) 계층 간 접근법을 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.720-740
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• 2011

Wi-Fi-enabled portable devices have recently been introduced into the consumer electronics market. These devices download or upload content, from or to a host machine, such as a personal computer, a laptop, a home gateway, or a media server. This paper investigates the fairness among multiple Wi-Fi-enabled portable devices in a home network when they are simultaneously communicated with the host machine. First, we present that, a simple IEEE 802.11-based home network suffers from unfairness, and the fairness is exaggerated by the wireless link errors. This unfairness is due to the asymmetric response of the TCP to data-packet loss and to acknowledgment-packet loss, and the wireless link errors that occur in the proximity of any node; the errors affect other wireless devices through the interaction at the interface queue of the home gateway. We propose a QoS-provisioning framework in order to achieve per-device fairness and service differentiation. For this purpose, we introduce the medium access price, which denotes an aggregate value of network-wide traffic load, per-device link usage, and per-device link error rate. We implemented the proposed framework in the ns-2 simulator, and carried out a simulation study to evaluate its performance with respect to fairness, service differentiation, loss and delay. The simulation results indicate that the proposed method enforces the per-device fairness, regardless of the number of devices present and regardless of the level of wireless link errors; furthermore it achieves high link utilization with only a small amount of frame losses.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.653-660
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• 2013

This paper deals with the problem of unfairness among uplink TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) flows associated with frame aggregation employed in IEEE 802.11n WLANs (Wireless Local Area Networks). When multiple stations have uplink TCP flows and transmit TCP data packets to an AP (Access Point), the AP has to compete for channel access with stations for the transmission of TCP ACK (acknowledgement) packets to the stations. Due to this contention-based channel access, TCP ACKs tend to be accumulated in the AP's downlink buffer. We show that the frame aggregation in the MAC (Medium Access Control) layer increases TCP ACK losses in the AP and leads to the serious unfair operation of TCP congestion control. To resolve this problem, we propose the TAC (TCP ACK Compression) mechanism operating at the top of the AP's interface queue. By exploiting the properties of cumulative TCP ACK and frame aggregation, TAC serves only the representative TCP ACK without serving redundant TCP ACKs. Therefore, TAC reduces queue occupancy and prevents ACK losses due to buffer overflow, which significantly contributes to fairness among uplink TCP flows. Also, TAC enhances the channel efficiency by not transmitting unnecessary TCP ACKs. The simulation results show that TAC tightly assures fairness under various network conditions while increasing the aggregate throughput, compared to the existing schemes.