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Hidden traffic interference has been identified as an important source of network instabilities in dense wireless network deployments. This paper follows recent research results that relate packet loss and hidden traffic interference and explores, through extensive experimentation, the possibility to infer hidden traffic load using loss measurements in practical WLAN deployments. Furthermore, we present a preliminary tool able to provide online estimates of the hidden traffic load combining active and passive measurements.
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Núñez-Martínez, J., Portoles-Comeras, M., Cabellos-Aparicio, A., López-Rovira, D., Mangues-Bafalluy, J., Domingo-Pascual, J. (2010). An Experimental Evaluation of Packet-Level Measurements of Hidden Traffic Load. In: Osipov, E., Kassler, A., Bohnert, T.M., Masip-Bruin, X. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications. WWIC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6074. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13315-2_26
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