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Rate adaptation is a fundamental primitive in wireless networks. Since wireless channel strength varies quickly and unpredictably, senders have to constantly measure the channel and correspondingly adapt the bitrate so that the transmitted packet gets correctly decoded. Prior approaches to this problem can be divided into two classes: those that require constant and expensive feedback from the receiver about channel strength, or those that use coarse and often inaccurate inference based on packet losses to measure channel strength and decide what bitrate to use.
Gudipati et al. (Wed,) studied this question.