Fairness and Quality of Service Issues and Analysis of IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN
The IEEE 802.11e which is an enhanced version of the 802.11 WLAN standards incorporates the Quality of Service (QoS) which makes it a better choice for multimedia and real time applications. In this paper we study various aspects concerned with 802.11e standard. Further, the analysis results for this standard are compared with the legacy 802.11 standard. Simulation results show that IEEE 802.11e out performs legacy IEEE 802.11 in terms of quality of service due to its flow differentiated channel allocation and better queue management architecture. We also propose a method to improve the unfair allocation of bandwidth for downlink and uplink channels by varying the medium access priority level.
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Companion", January 1, 2005.
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"MAC implementation for IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN", in Proc. of
Joint 4th IEEE International Conference on ATM (ICATM 2001) and
High Speed Intelligent Internet Symposium 2001. Seoul, South Korea,
April 2001, pp. 191-195.
[10] Zhang wei, Sun Jun, Lui Jing and Zhang Hai-bin, "Performance analysis
of IEEE 802.11e EDCA in wireless LANs", Journal of Zhejiang
University - Science A, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 18-23, January, 2007.
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(PHY) Specification," ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11 1999 (E) Part 11, 1999.
[12] Casetti C., Chiasserini C. F., Fiore M. and Garetto M."Notes on the
inefficiency of 802.11e HCCA", in Proc. 62nd IEEE Conference on
Vehicular Technology 2005 (IEEE VTC-2005), Sept. 2005, Dallas, USA,
pp. 2513-2517.
[13] Sven Wietholter, Christian Hoene, Marc Emmelmann, and Adam Wolisz
"TKN EDCA model for ns-2", Technical University Berlin TKN June
2006.
[14] Magnold S., Choi S., Hiertz G., Klein O. and Walke B., "Analysis of
IEEE 802.11e for QoS Support in Wireless LANs," IEEE Wireless
Communications, vol. 10 (6), pp. 40-50.
[15] Bai A., Skeie T., and Engelstad P.E., "A Model-Based Admission
Control for 802.11e EDCA using Delay Predictions," in Proc. of IEEE
IPCCC 2007, April, 2007, New Orleans, LA, pp.226-235.
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fairness over Wireless LAN", in proc IEEE INFOCOM 2003, Mar-Apr
2003, San Francisco, USA pp. 863-872.
[1] Banchs, A. and Perez X., "Providing throughput guarantees in IEEE
802.11 wireless LAN", in Proc IEEE WCNC 2002, Orlando, FL, Mar
2002, vol. 1, no. 17-21, pp. 130-138.
[2] O-Mahony, D. and Doyle, L., "Architectural Imperatives for 4th
Generation IP-based Mobile Networks", invited paper, in Proceedings
of the fourth international symposium on wireless personal multimedia
communications, September, 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, pp 1319-1325.
[3] Liqiang Zhao and Changxin Fan, "Enhancement of QoS differentiation
over IEEE 802.11 WLAN", IEEE communication. letters., vol. 8, no. 8,
pp. 494-496, Aug. 2004.
[4] Bedoui Adel, Barkaoui Kamel and Djouani Karim," Peformance Study
of IEEE 802.11 WLAN Integrating QoS Requirements", in Proc.
ICWMC '07, France, Mar. 2007, pp. 69-69.
[5] Mico F., Cuenca P. and Orozco-Barbosa, L., "QoS in IEEE 802.11
wireless LAN: current research activities," in Proc. of IEEE Canadian
Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2004, Ontario,
Canada, May 2004, pp. 447-452.
[6] Ping Wang, Hai Jiang and Weihua Zhuang, "IEEE 802.11e
enhancement for voice service", IEEE Wireless Communications, vol.
13, no. 1, pp. 30-35, Feb. 2006.
[7] Yang Xiao, "Packing mechanisms for the IEEE 802.11n wireless
LANs", IEEE GLOBECOM 2004, Nov-Dec. 2004, TN, USA, vol. 5, no.
29, pp. 3275-3279.
[8] Bob O'Hara and Al Petrick, "802.11 Handbook: A Designer's
Companion", January 1, 2005.
[9] Youjin Kim, Haewon Jung, Hyeong Ho Lee and Kyong Rok Cho,
"MAC implementation for IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN", in Proc. of
Joint 4th IEEE International Conference on ATM (ICATM 2001) and
High Speed Intelligent Internet Symposium 2001. Seoul, South Korea,
April 2001, pp. 191-195.
[10] Zhang wei, Sun Jun, Lui Jing and Zhang Hai-bin, "Performance analysis
of IEEE 802.11e EDCA in wireless LANs", Journal of Zhejiang
University - Science A, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 18-23, January, 2007.
[11] "Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer
(PHY) Specification," ANSI/IEEE Std 802.11 1999 (E) Part 11, 1999.
[12] Casetti C., Chiasserini C. F., Fiore M. and Garetto M."Notes on the
inefficiency of 802.11e HCCA", in Proc. 62nd IEEE Conference on
Vehicular Technology 2005 (IEEE VTC-2005), Sept. 2005, Dallas, USA,
pp. 2513-2517.
[13] Sven Wietholter, Christian Hoene, Marc Emmelmann, and Adam Wolisz
"TKN EDCA model for ns-2", Technical University Berlin TKN June
2006.
[14] Magnold S., Choi S., Hiertz G., Klein O. and Walke B., "Analysis of
IEEE 802.11e for QoS Support in Wireless LANs," IEEE Wireless
Communications, vol. 10 (6), pp. 40-50.
[15] Bai A., Skeie T., and Engelstad P.E., "A Model-Based Admission
Control for 802.11e EDCA using Delay Predictions," in Proc. of IEEE
IPCCC 2007, April, 2007, New Orleans, LA, pp.226-235.
[16] S. Pilosof. R., Ramjee Y., and Shavitt. P. Sinha, "Understanding TCP
fairness over Wireless LAN", in proc IEEE INFOCOM 2003, Mar-Apr
2003, San Francisco, USA pp. 863-872.
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