896 research outputs found
Spectrum Utilization and Congestion of IEEE 802.11 Networks in the 2.4 GHz ISM Band
Wi-Fi technology, plays a major role in society thanks to its widespread availability, ease of use and low cost. To assure its long term viability in terms of capacity and ability to share the spectrum efïŹciently, it is of paramount to study the spectrum utilization and congestion mechanisms in live environments. In this paper the service level in the 2.4 GHz ISM band is investigated with focus on todays IEEE 802.11 WLAN systems with support for the 802.11e extension. Here service level means the overall Quality of Service (QoS), i.e. can all devices fulïŹll their communication needs? A crosslayer approach is used, since the service level can be measured at several levels of the protocol stack. The focus is on monitoring at both the Physical (PHY) and the Medium Access Control (MAC) link layer simultaneously by performing respectively power measurements with a spectrum analyzer to assess spectrum utilization and packet snifïŹng to measure the congestion. Compared to traditional QoS analysis in 802.11 networks, packet snifïŹng allows to study the occurring congestion mechanisms more thoroughly. The monitoring is applied for the following two cases. First the inïŹuence of interference between WLAN networks sharing the same radio channel is investigated in a controlled environment. It turns out that retry rate, Clear-ToSend (CTS), Request-To-Send (RTS) and (Block) Acknowledgment (ACK) frames can be used to identify congestion, whereas the spectrum analyzer is employed to identify the source of interference. Secondly, live measurements are performed at three locations to identify this type of interference in real-live situations. Results show inefïŹcient use of the wireless medium in certain scenarios, due to a large portion of management and control frames compared to data content frames (i.e. only 21% of the frames is identiïŹed as data frames)
Scheduling for next generation WLANs: filling the gap between offered and observed data rates
In wireless networks, opportunistic scheduling is used to increase system throughput by exploiting multi-user diversity. Although recent advances have increased physical layer data rates supported in wireless local area networks (WLANs), actual throughput realized are significantly lower due to overhead. Accordingly, the frame aggregation concept is used in next generation WLANs to improve efficiency. However, with frame aggregation, traditional opportunistic schemes are no longer optimal. In this paper, we propose schedulers that take queue and channel conditions into account jointly, to maximize throughput observed at the users for next generation WLANs. We also extend this work to design two schedulers that perform block scheduling for maximizing network throughput over multiple transmission sequences. For these schedulers, which make decisions over long time durations, we model the system using queueing theory and determine users' temporal access proportions according to this model. Through detailed simulations, we show that all our proposed algorithms offer significant throughput improvement, better fairness, and much lower delay compared with traditional opportunistic schedulers, facilitating the practical use of the evolving standard for next generation wireless networks
A New Method of User Association in Wireless Mesh Networks
The IEEE 802.11 based wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are becoming the promising technology to provide last-mile broadband Internet access to the users. In order to access the Internet through the pre-deployed WMN, the user has to associate with one of the access points (APs) present in the network. In WMN, it is very common that the user device can have multiple APs in its vicinity. Since the user performance majorly depends on the associated AP, how to select the best AP is always remaining as a challenging research problem in WMN. The traditional method of AP selection is based on received signal strength (RSS) and it is proven inefficient in the literature as the method does not consider AP load, channel conditions, etc. This paper proposes a new method of user association in WMN such that the user selects the AP based on achievable end-to-end throughput measured in the presence of other interfering APs. The proposed association metric is independent of routing protocol and routing metric used in WMN. The simulation results show that our method outperforms the RSS based AP selection method in WMN
Performance of wireless LAN access methods in multicell environments
In this paper, we address the issue of evaluating performance of wireless LANs in multicell scenarios. We try to understand the complex behavior of the DCF (Distributed
Coordination Function) access method defined in the IEEE 802.11 standard [1] and its modifications proposed for improving performance: Slow Decrease [2], Asymptotically Optimal Backoff [3], and
Idle Sense [4]. We analyze the influence of overlapping cells and large multicell environments on their performance. Our results show that the IEEE 802.11 DCF and its two modifications (Slow Decrease and AOB) exhibit important unfairness between stations close to the access point and those near the border of a neighbor cell. Idle Sense performs much better: it provides much better fairness than the IEEE 802.11 DCF and its modifications. It also obtains the highest throughput when stations adapt their bit rate to channel conditions.Peer Reviewe
Reverse Direction Transmission in Wireless Networks: Review
Reverse direction mechanism is a promising significant development that may lead to promoting the
accuracy of TXOP. The transfer, in conventional TXOP operation, is one way direction out of the station which
holds the TXOP and which is not applied to some network services using two lane traffic namely VoIP and
on-line gaming. Therefore, the conventional TXOP operation enhances only the forward direction transfer, but not the reverse direction transfer. Moreover, reverse direction mechanism makes it possible for the holder of
TXOP to reserve unused TXOP time for its receivers which may improve the channel utilization as well as the
performance of reverse direction traffic flows. It is well-known that the reverse direction transfer scheme aims mainly to improve the effectiveness and that plays a key role in reducing the overhead and increasing the
system throughput. Thus, this paper provides an overview of a research progress in reverse direction
transmission scheme over high speed wireless LANs. Moreover, it addresses the reverse direction mechanism
that has been proposed for the next generation wireless networks and the ones adopted by IEEE 802.11n
standard. Furthermore, it stresses the reverse issues that require to be dealt with in order to bring further
progress to the reverse direction transmission
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