Research Article
Adaptive Two-Level Frame Aggregation for Fairness and Efficiency in IEEE 802.11n Wireless LANs
Table 4
Performances of
DCF,
FA2-H, and
FA2-T schemes under the heterogeneous network condition in Section
2.1.
| Performance measure | DCF | FA2-H | FA2-T |
| Airtime ratio | STA1 | 0.166 | 0.211 | 0.210 | STA2 | 0.397 | 0.221 | 0.216 | STA3 | 0.080 | 0.210 | 0.216 | STA4 | 0.127 | 0.221 | 0.219 |
| Fairness index | 0.7137 | 0.9994 | 0.9998 |
| Throughput (Mb/s) | STA1 | 1.06 | 2.24 | 2.32 | STA2 | 4.11 | 2.56 | 2.51 | STA3 | 1.07 | 11.40 | 11.78 | STA4 | 4.20 | 12.51 | 12.62 |
| Aggregate throughput (Mb/s) | 10.44 | 28.71 | 29.23 |
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