Throughput Fairness Using Packet Aggregation on 802.11g Networks

Abstract

Throughput fairness in 802.11 environments have been widely studied for most of the researchers. Application protocols with small packet size get lesser throughput compared to large packet size protocols. In this paper, we propose fairness mechanism with selective packet aggregation based on type of protocol. The fairness mechanism affects packets that only belong to delay insensitive protocols. We simulate the mechanism using WLAN simulator and compare the result with standard 802.11g implementation. The simulation result shows, our mechanism can give good equality of throughput and can increase overall system throughput on 802.11g network.