On Sun, 9 Aug 2015, David Lang wrote:
Just like wired networks benefit greatly from time-based queues rather than packet count based queues, I think that wifi aggregation should not be based on packet count (or even aggregate size) but rather the amont of airtime that's going to be used (aggregate size * bit rate + overhead)
I have been involved in 3GPP networking. In for instnace LTE, you can tune the scheduler to allocate resources in multiple ways, for instance so that each user gets similar amount of transfered data/second, or they get access to equal amount of "airtime resources" (which is called TTI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Time_Interval), which is time slot and frequency divided in LTE (LTE has a lot of subcarriers (OFDM) and each subcarrier has 1ms TTIs)).
Personally I favor the "airtime resource fairness", becuase that means a station with bad connectivity doesn't harm a station with good connectivity. I think it's also intuitive to people that if they have bad radio conditions, their network performance goes down. If you give everybody the same speed even though some needs a lot more airtime resource to attain that speed, that person will never know they're hogging resources and will never try to improve the situation.
So if I understood you correctly above, my opinion is in agreement with what you wrote.
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