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Active Queue Management for Fair Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
February 2008 (vol. 7 no. 2)
pp. 231-246
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Lachlan L.H. Andrew, Stephen V. Hanly, Rami G. Mukhtar, "Active Queue Management for Fair Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 231-246, February, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TMC.2007.70724,
author = {Lachlan L.H. Andrew and Stephen V. Hanly and Rami G. Mukhtar},
title = {Active Queue Management for Fair Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
volume = {7},
number = {2},
issn = {1536-1233},
year = {2008},
pages = {231-246},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TMC.2007.70724},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
TI - Active Queue Management for Fair Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
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SN - 1536-1233
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EPD - 231-246
A1 - Lachlan L.H. Andrew,
A1 - Stephen V. Hanly,
A1 - Rami G. Mukhtar,
PY - 2008
KW - wireless communications
KW - wireless networks
KW - TCP
KW - Transmission Control Protocol
KW - active queue management
KW - multiuser diversity
KW - scheduling
KW - flow control
KW - access networks
VL - 7
JA - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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This paper investigates the interaction between end-to-end flow control and MAC-layer scheduling onwireless links. We consider a wireless network with multiple users receiving information from a commonaccess point; each user suffers fading, and a scheduler allocates the channel based on channel quality,but subject to fairness and latency considerations. We show that the fairness property of the scheduler iscompromised by the transport layer flow control of TCP NewReno. We provide a receiver-side controlalgorithm, CLAMP, that remedies this situation. CLAMP works at a receiver to control a TCP sender bysetting the TCP receiver' s advertised window limit, and this allows the scheduler to allocate bandwidth fairlybetween the users.

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Index Terms:
wireless communications, wireless networks, TCP, Transmission Control Protocol, active queue management,multiuser diversity, scheduling, flow control, access networks
Citation:
Lachlan L.H. Andrew, Stephen V. Hanly, Rami G. Mukhtar, "Active Queue Management for Fair Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 231-246, Feb. 2008, doi:10.1109/TMC.2007.70724
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