MAC scheduling using channel state diversity for high-throughput IEEE 802.11 mesh networks.

The head-of-line blocking problem impairs the throughput of the hotspot nodes in multihop wireless mesh networks. FIFO scheduling in the current IEEE 802.11 MAC suffers from this problem when the network is highly loaded. The problem may keep the sender in backoff stage up to 70 percent of the time,...

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Published in:	IEEE Communications magazine 45, 11 (2007).
Main Author:	Jian Zhang
Other Authors:	Chen, Peter, Marsic, Ivan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	FIFO scheduling. IEEE 802.11 mesh networks. MAC scheduling. Adaptive learning process. Channel diversity. Head-of-line blocking. High-throughput mesh network. Multihop wireless mesh network.