With the increasing availability of flexible wireless 802.11 devices, the potential exists for users to selfishly manipulate their channel access parameters and gain a performance advantage. Such practices can have a severe negative impact on compliant stations. To enable access points to counteract these selfish behaviours and preserve fairness in wireless networks, in this paper we propose a policing mechanism that drives misbehaving users into compliant operation without requiring any cooperation from clients. This approach is demonstrably effective against a broad class of misbehaviours, soundly-based, i.e. provably hard to circumvent and amenable to practical implementation on existing commodity hardware.
@article{arxiv.1311.5014,
title = {Policing 802.11 MAC Misbehaviours},
author = {P. Patras and H. Feghhi and D. Malone and D. J. Leith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.5014},
year = {2014}
}