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Sizing of IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

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WMASH '05: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots

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Sizing of IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs (WLANs), defined as the problem of finding the maximum number of users that can be supported, is essential for efficient application performance over WLANs. The usage of existing analytical models of 802.11 MAC in sizing requires a mapping from application load and performance to link-layer load and performance respectively, which we propose in this paper.We first evaluate analytical models of 802.11 MAC from the sizing perspective and then propose an approximate sizing method. We illustrate our method through an HTTP application and validate it through extensive ns-2 simulations which show that the number of users suggested by our tool are within 13% of those derived from simulations for a majority of the test cases.

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Tantra JFoh CTinnirello IBianchi G(2007)Out-of-Band Signaling Scheme for High Speed Wireless LANsIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications10.1109/TWC.2007.060296:9(3256-3267)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2007
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Tantra JFoh CTinnirello IBianchi G(2006)Analysis of the IEEE 802.11e EDCA Under Statistical Traffic2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications10.1109/ICC.2006.254852(546-551)Online publication date: Jun-2006
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WMASH '05: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots

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DOI:10.1145/1080730

General Chair:
Sunghyun Choi
Seoul National University, Korea
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Lucent Bell Labs
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Renato Lo Cigno
University of Trento, Italy

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Patil PApte VLeung VKota S(2007)An autonomous distributed admission control scheme for IEEE 802.11 DCFThe Fourth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness & Workshops10.1145/1577222.1577287(1-7)Online publication date: 14-Aug-2007
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Tantra JFoh CTinnirello IBianchi G(2007)Out-of-Band Signaling Scheme for High Speed Wireless LANsIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications10.1109/TWC.2007.060296:9(3256-3267)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TWC.2007.06029
Tantra JFoh CTinnirello IBianchi G(2006)Analysis of the IEEE 802.11e EDCA Under Statistical Traffic2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications10.1109/ICC.2006.254852(546-551)Online publication date: Jun-2006
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