Concord: Airtime-Aware Contention Control for Taming Tail Latency from Wi-Fi Frame Bursting
In congested Wi-Fi, sending less does not guarantee lower latency. Based on measurements on commodity Wi-Fi routers in the wild, sparse microflows can suffer bulk-like tail latency even at negligible load. This latency is driven by MAC-level contention dynamics rather than a flow's sending rate, rendering rate-based co...