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 measureDCFFA2-HFA2-T

Airtime ratioSTA10.1660.2110.210
STA20.3970.2210.216
STA30.0800.2100.216
STA40.1270.2210.219

Fairness index0.71370.99940.9998

Throughput (Mb/s)STA11.062.242.32
STA24.112.562.51
STA31.0711.4011.78
STA44.2012.5112.62

Aggregate throughput (Mb/s)10.4428.7129.23