Performance evaluation of an enhanced distributed channel access protocol under heterogeneous traffic

Recently there have been considerable interests focusing on the performance evaluation of IEEE 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols, which were proposed for supporting Quality of Services (QoS) in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Different from most existing work, this study has conducted comprehensive performance evaluation and analysis of the IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) protocol in the presence of heterogeneous network traffic including non-bursty Poisson, bursty ON/OFF, and self-similar traffic generated by wireless multimedia applications. The performance results on throughput, access delay and medium utilization have demonstrated that the protocol is able to achieve satisfying QoS differentiation for heterogeneous multimedia traffic. On the other hand the results have showed that IEEE 802.11e EDCA suffering from the low medium utilization due to the overhead generated by transmission collisions and back-off processes. 1

A differentiated Services Architecture for Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Local Area Networks

Currently the issue of Quality of Service (QoS) is a major problem in IP networks due to the growth in multimedia traffic (e.g. voice and video applications) and therefore many mechanisms like IntServ, DiffServ, etc. have been proposed. Since the IEEE 802.11b (or Wi-Fi) standard was approved in 1999, it has gained in popularity to become the leading Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) technology with millions of such networks deployed worldwide. Wireless networks have a limited capacity (11 Mbits/s in the case of Wi-Fi networks) owing to the limited amount of frequency spectrum available. At any given time there may be a large number of users contending for access which results in the bandwidth available to each user being severely limited. Moreover, the system does not differentiate between traffic types which means that all traffic, regardless of its importance or priority, experiences the same QoS. An important network application requiring QoS guarantees is the provision of time-bounded services, such as voice over IP and video streaming, where the combination of packet delay, jitter and packet loss will impact on the perceived QoS. Consequently this has led to a large amount of research work focussing mainly on QoS enhancement schemes for the 802.11 MAC mechanism. The Task Group E of the IEEE 802.11 working group has been developing an extension to the Wi-Fi standard that proposes to make changes to the MAC mechanism to support applications with QoS requirements. The 802.11e QoS standard is currently undergoing final revisions before approval expected sometime in 2004. As 802.11e WLAN equipment is not yet available, performance reports can only be based on simulation. The objective of this thesis was to develop a computer simulator that implements the upcoming IEEE 802.11e standard and to use this simulator to evaluate the QoS performance enhancement potential of 802.11e. This thesis discusses the QoS facilities, analyses the MAC protocol enhancements and compares them with the original 802.11 standard. The issue of QoS provisioning is primarily concerned with providing predictable performance guarantees with regard to throughput, packet delay, jitter and packet loss. The simulated results indicate that the proposed QoS enhancements to the MAC will considerably improve QoS performance in 802.11b WLANs. However, in order for the proposed 802.11e QoS mechanism to be effective the 802.11e parameters will need to be continually adjusted in order to ensure QoS guarantees are fulfilled for all traffic loads

Uma proposta de escalonamento confiável para redes sem fio baseadas no padrão IEEE 802.11/11e

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia ElétricaEste trabalho investiga o problema de escalonamento de recursos de rede no contexto de sistemas móveis cooperativos que trocam mensagens com requisitos de tempo real firmes utilizando uma rede sem fio compatível com o adendo IEEEE 802.11e. Assim, devido a aspectos físicos da comunicação sem fio, a retransmissão de mensagens é um problema crucial, especialmente em uma aplicação de tempo real. Experimentos realizados neste contexto mostraram que a abordagem regular para retransmissões proposta pelo adendo IEEE 802.11e não é suficiente para aplicações de tempo real que necessitam um certo nível de confiabilidade. Para tratar este problema, este trabalho propõe uma nova abordagem que integra retransmissão e escalonamento de mensagens de forma combinada na camada de acesso ao meio. De acordo com a abordagem proposta, o algoritmo de escalonamento é capaz de lidar com os erros de transmissão residuais e aumentar o grau de confiabilidade para as mensagens de tempo real. Assim, a solução proposta é flexível para lidar com falhas inesperadas e suportar requisitos adicionais de qualidade de serviço aumentando a robustez e a adaptabilidade do sistema. A abordagem proposta é avaliada através de simulações em diferentes cenários de carga de tráfego. Os resultados obtidos são analisados comparativamente com a abordagem padrão para escalonamento e retransmissão do adendo IEEE 802.11e. Estes resultados confirmam os benefícios da proposta

Quality of service schemes for IEEE 802.11 : a simulation study

This thesis analyzes and compares four different mechanisms for providing QoS in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs. We have evaluated the Point Coordinator Function (which is the IEEE 802.11 mode for service differentiation), Distributed Fair Scheduling, Blackburst, and a scheme proposed by Deng et al. using the ns-2 simulator. The evaluation covers medium utilization, access delay, and the ability to support a large number of high priority mobile stations. Our simulations show that PCF performs badly, and that Blackburst has the best performance with regard to the above metrics. An advantage with the Deng scheme and Distributed Fair Scheduling is that they are less constrained, with regard to the characteristics of high priority traffic, than Blackburst is.Validerat; 20101217 (root

Quality of Service Schemes for IEEE 802.11 - A Simulation Study

. This paper analyzes and compares four different mechanisms for providing QoS in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs. We have evaluated the IEEE 802.11 mode for service differentiation (PCF), Distributed Fair Scheduling, Blackburst, and a scheme proposed by Deng et al. using the ns-2 simulator. The evaluation covers medium utilization, access delay, and the ability to support a large number of high priority mobile stations. Our simulations show that PCF performs badly, and that Blackburst has the best performance with regard to the above metrics. An advantage with the Deng scheme and Distributed Fair Scheduling is that they are less constrained, with regard to the characteristics of high priority traffic, than Blackburst is.