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Proxy‐RED: an AQM scheme for wireless local area networks
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- Authors
- Sungwon Yi, Martin Kappes, Sachin Garg, Xidong Deng, George Kesidis, Chita R. Das
- Issue Date
- 2008-05
- Citation
- Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, v.8, no.4, pp.421-434
- ISSN
- 1530-8669
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- Wireless access points (APs) act as bridges between wired and wireless networks. Since the actually available bandwidth in wireless networks is much smaller than the bandwidth in wired networks, there is a disparity in channel capacity which makes the access point a significant network congestion point in the downstream direction. A current architectural trend in wireless local area networks (WLAN) is to move functionality from APs to a centralized gateway in order to reduce cost and improve features. In this paper, we study the use of RED, a well known active queue management (AQM) scheme, and explicit congestion notification (ECN) to handle bandwidth disparity between the wired and the wireless interface of an access point. Then, we propose the Proxy-RED scheme, as a solution for reducing the AQM overhead from the access point. Simulations-based performance analysis indicates that the proposed Proxy-RED scheme improves the overall performance of a network. In particular, the Proxy-RED scheme significantly reduces packet loss rate and improves goodput for a small buffer, and minimizes delay for a large buffer size. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- KSP Keywords
- Available bandwidth, Buffer Size, Centralized gateway, Channel capacity, Downstream direction, Explicit congestion notification, Local Area Network(LAN), Network Congestion, Overall performance, Performance analysis, RED Scheme