Experimental Results

In this section, we describe results from controlled experiments of our downstream bandwidth estimation scheme. All our experiments were conducted in an anechoic chamber that is designed to provide a very low noise environment, suitable for controlled experimentation. We configured a linux box with a Netgear MA 311 wireless PCI card to function as an access point running the hostap driver. The $RTS/CTS$ handshake was disabled and the card was operated at a fixed rate of 11 Mbps.