Name
Abstract | ||
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Wireless networks have evolved into an important technology for connecting users to the Internet. As the utility of wireless technology grows, wireless networks are being deployed in more widely varying conditions. The monitoring of wireless networks continues to reveal key implementation deficiencies that need to be corrected in order to improve protocol operation and end-to-end network performance. In wireless networks, where the medium is shared, unwanted traffic can pose significant overhead and lead to suboptimal network performance. Much of the previous analyses of unwanted traffic in wireless networks focus on malicious traffic. However, another major contributor of unwanted traffic is incorrect link layer behavior. Using data we collected from the 67th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting held in November 2006, we show that a significant portion of link layer traffic stems from mechanisms that initiate, maintain, and change client-AP associations. We further show that under conditions of high medium utilization and packet loss rate, handoffs are initiated incorrectly. We analyze the traffic to understand when handoffs occur and whether the handoffs were beneficial or should have been avoided. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1109/TMC.2010.88 | IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
protocols,experimentation,end-to-end network performance,unwanted link layer traffic,internet engineering task force,network protocols,malicious traffic,incorrect link layer behavior,link layer traffic,suboptimal network performance,wireless network,handoff,wireless networks,network operations,important technology,measurement,ieee 802.11.,high medium utilization,large ieee,internet,large ieee 802.11 wireless networks,management,congestion,wireless technology,unwanted traffic,protocol operation,telecommunication traffic,wireless lan,performance,link layer,network performance,maintenance engineering,ieee 802 11,network protocol,data engineering,interference,wireless application protocol | Fixed wireless,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Wireless network,IEEE 802.11,Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Link layer,Wireless Application Protocol,Distributed computing,The Internet | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
9 | 9 | 1536-1233 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
20 | 1.20 | 20 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramya Raghavendra | 1 | 284 | 23.15 |
| Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer | 2 | 8067 | 1043.73 |
| Konstantina Papagiannaki | 3 | 4094 | 304.11 |
| Kevin C. Almeroth | 4 | 2551 | 209.40 |