[ns] About wireless bandwidth

Ya Xu yaxu@ISI.EDU
Sat, 13 Oct 2001 11:12:18 -0700 (PDT)


If you are talking about the rate of your application,
it can not reach 2M because of the protocol overhead in
transport and mac etc.

-ya

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Wings wrote:

> Dear ns-users,
> 
>     The default value of wireless bandwidth is 2Mbps. 
> Because wireless channel is broadcast environment.
> if only one TCP flow is start up,it can use all the channel.
> But its rate can't achieve 2Mbps. Why?
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
> Best regard,
> Wings
> 
>