http://s2n.merunetworks.com/2009/11/airtime-fairness-defined-part-2/ Giving you straight talk about Enterprise Wireless Networks Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:46:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://s2n.merunetworks.com/2009/11/airtime-fairness-defined-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-88 merunetworks Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:24:56 +0000 http://s2n.merunetworks.com/?p=698#comment-88 This is precisely why airtime fairness must be time based and not packet based - it allows fair allocation of time to slower and faster clients and the AP (answering the clients) can use only the time needed to answer the client and won't occupy the channel when it doesn't need to. So the presence of many slower clients will not unnecessarily occupy the channel when the AP is to serve/respond to the slower clients. This is precisely why airtime fairness must be time based and not packet based – it allows fair allocation of time to slower and faster clients and the AP (answering the clients) can use only the time needed to answer the client and won't occupy the channel when it doesn't need to. So the presence of many slower clients will not unnecessarily occupy the channel when the AP is to serve/respond to the slower clients.

]]> http://s2n.merunetworks.com/2009/11/airtime-fairness-defined-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Ramprasad Vempati Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:33:56 +0000 http://s2n.merunetworks.com/?p=698#comment-85 Could you elaborate how do you give airtime fairness when the medium has only majority uplink transmissions? i.e both 1Mbps and 300Mbps clients just have data to send and got very few data to receive? Could you elaborate how do you give airtime fairness when the medium has only majority uplink transmissions? i.e both 1Mbps and 300Mbps clients just have data to send and got very few data to receive?

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