Research Article

Optimizing TCP Performance in Multi-AP Residential Broadband Connections via Minislot Access

Table 1

Main variables used.

th AP
Number of AP backhauls
(ms) Wireless period
th virtual station, associated to
End-to-end wired delay
(≤1) Duty cycle for the th virtual station
(≥1) Number of slots for the th virtual station
Total number of slots
Disconnection cost for the th slot
SlotTime Minimum slot size