| | Courtesy Piggybacking: Supporting Differentiated Services in Multihop Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Due to the salient characteristics such as the time-varying and error-prone wireless links, the dynamic and limited bandwidth, the time-varying traffic pattern and user locations, and the energy constraints, it is a challenging task to efficiently support heterogeneous traffic with different quality of service (QoS) requirements in multihop mobile ad hoc networks. |
 | | One of the problems is how to alleviate the conflict between throughput and fairness for different prioritized traffic, especially how to avoid the bandwidth starvation problem for low-priority traffic when the high-priority traffic load is very high. |
 | | With the recognition of interlayer coupling, our Courtesy Piggybacking scheme exploits the channel dynamics and stochastic traffic features to alleviate the conflict. |
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