Fairness characterization in contemporary IEEE 802.11 deployments with saturated traffic load

Abstract

This paper studies a widely used wireless technology (IEEE 802.11-2014) and the simulation establishment of the efficient Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) in modern environment. However, currently used saturation based analysis may be applied only for fair systems, hence, the question arises which system may be considered as fair. Mostly used metric for such an analysis (Jain's Fairness Index) does not apply for 802.11-2014 standard in a particular case of a small number of users. So, we propose a novel metric to define fairness.