Adnan Majeed
ABSTRACT
Wireless Home Networks (WHNs) suffer from the rate anomaly problem which leads to network performance deterioration. We observe that transmitting bandwidth intensive traffic, such as a video stream, over low data rate links can affect the end-to-end delays of co-existing high data rate traffic. Based on this observation, we propose modifications to the WHN setup. This paper suggests the use of an additional AP to ensure that all nodes transmitting bandwidth intensive traffic to the gateway AP do so at a high data rate or through an intermediate AP. Simulation based evaluation of the proposed network setup shows that in the presence of the rate anomaly problem adding an additional AP improves network wide performance.
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- Is there a need for multiple APs in home networks?
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