Starvation modeling and identification in dense 802.11 wireless community networks

With the growing number of spontaneously deployed WiFi hotspots and home networks, end-users often experience significant performance degradation or even starvation. However, we observe that tuning individual system parameters (channel, Tx power, carrier sense (CS) threshold, and transmit rate etc.) is insufficient and in some cases may lead to starvation. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive analytical model to characterize throughput of …