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Wireless mesh network (WMN) is a new multi-hop network for broadband accessing to internet. However, there exists a server unfairness problem based on different hop distances in WMN. To solve this problem, the unfairness issue was analyzed in test-bed experiment and NS2 simulation. A dynamic queue management scheme E-QMMN was proposed, which allocates the queue buffer according to the hop distance of every flow. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can not only increase the hop distance fairness of the legacy scheme at most 50%, but also reduce the average round trip time at least 29% in congested WMN environments.
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Foundation item: Projects(61163060, 61103204, 60963022) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; Project(D018023) supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province, China; Postdoctoral Funding of Central South University, China
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Ye, J., Wang, Jx., Huang, Jw. et al. Hop distance fairness for wireless mesh network based on queue management. J. Cent. South Univ. 19, 2832–2838 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-012-1349-y
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