Implements the Adaptive ARF (AARF) rate control mechanism, which was initially described in IEEE 802.11 Rate Adaptation: A Practical Approach, by M. Lacage, M.H. Manshaei, and T. Turletti, 2004.

Inheritance diagram

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Known subclasses

Name	Type	Description
ArfRateControl	simple module	Implements the Auto Rate Fallback (ARF) adaptive rate control mechanism.

Parameters

Name	Type	Default value	Description
initialRate	double	-1bps	-1 means fastest mandatory rate
interval	double	50ms	The rate (unconditionally) increases after each time interval.
increaseThreshold	int	10	Number of successful transmissions needed to increase the rate
decreaseThreshold	int	2	Number of consecutive unsuccessful transmissions (in the sense that ACK does not arrive within timeout) needed to increase the rate
increaseThresholdFactor	double	2	When the transmission of probing packet fails, we multiply by "increaseThresholdFactor" the increaseThreshold.
maxIncreaseThreshold	int	50	Upper bound for increaseThreshold.

Properties

Name	Value	Description
display	i=block/cogwheel

Signals

Name	Type	Unit
datarateChanged

Statistics

Name	Title	Source	Record	Unit	Interpolation Mode
datarateChanged	datarate		vector		sample-hold

Direct method calls (observed)

call to	function	info
Ieee80211Interface	inet::NetworkInterface::receiveSignal	POST_MODEL_CHANGE

Called methods (observed)

function	info	call from
inet::ieee80211::AarfRateControl::getRate	getRate	Dcf
inet::ieee80211::AarfRateControl::receiveSignal	modesetChanged	Ieee80211Mac

Source code

//
// Implements the Adaptive ARF (AARF) rate control mechanism, which was
// initially described in IEEE 802.11 Rate Adaptation: A Practical Approach,
// by M. Lacage, M.H. Manshaei, and T. Turletti, 2004.
//
simple AarfRateControl like IRateControl
{
    parameters:
        double initialRate @unit(bps) = default(-1bps); // -1 means fastest mandatory rate
        double interval @unit(s) = default(50ms); // The rate (unconditionally) increases after each time interval.
        int increaseThreshold = default(10); // Number of successful transmissions needed to increase the rate
        int decreaseThreshold = default(2); // Number of consecutive unsuccessful transmissions (in the sense that ACK does not arrive within timeout)
                                            // needed to increase the rate
        double increaseThresholdFactor = default(2); // When the transmission of probing packet fails, we multiply by "increaseThresholdFactor" the increaseThreshold.
        int maxIncreaseThreshold = default(50); // Upper bound for increaseThreshold.
        @display("i=block/cogwheel");
        @signal[datarateChanged];
        @statistic[datarateChanged](title="datarate"; record=vector; interpolationmode=sample-hold);
}

File: src/inet/linklayer/ieee80211/mac/ratecontrol/AarfRateControl.ned

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