固定宽带无线接入LMDS的MAC协议与QoS

介绍了基于IP的固定宽带无线接入技术的MAC协议的原理,分析了MAC协议保证服务质量(QoS)的机制。     

一种基于IEEE802.16网络的跨层QoS架构

IEEE 802.16 MAC协议虽然对各类业务的QoS提供支持,却没有定义完整的QoS机制。为了使IEEE802.16网络获得更好的QoS保证,本文提出了一种跨层QoS架构,在考虑IP层QoS与802.16MAC层QoS协同工作的同时,引入了分段控制和重映射机制。仿真实验结果表明,采用跨层QoS架构后的IEEE802.16网络具有更好的有效吞吐量及吞吐量。     

Ad Hoc网络中提供QoS保障的MAC协议的研究

在Ad Hoc网络中提供QoS保障是一个复杂的系统问题,而MAC协议是上层应用的服务质量能否得到最终保障的一个关键因素.文章阐述了Ad Hoc网络中QoS MAC协议的提出背景,说明了QoS MAC协议的设计策略.详细分析和讨论了在Ad Hoc网络的MAC层提供QoS支持的各种机制及方法.     

浅析无线局域网QoS机制

无线局域网(WLAN)技术的发展带来的多媒体业务流量的剧增,使无线网络的资源管理、服务质量(QoS)保障等问题日益突出。传统的媒体访问控制(MAC)协议需要重新设计,才能使无线网络的QoS问题得到有效的解决。本文介绍了无限局域网QoS技术的发展,包括针对IEEE 802.11MAC层协议进行的各种QoS增强技术。通过与传统802.11标准的MAC层进行对比分析,讨论了IEEE 802.lle的两个新的策略:增强的分布式协调功能和混合协调功能。     

一种新型提供服务质量保证的自适应无线局域网媒体接入协议

在无线局域网中提供QoS保证近年来日益成为研究热点.本文基于自适应无线局域网MAC协议在一种新的建模分析的基础上提出了一种提供QoS的新算法QoS-NSAD.QoS-NSAD赋予高优先级站点和低优先级站点不同的自适应特性从而很好地保证高负载环境高优先级用户的QoS特性.同时由于继承了以前算法的自适应机制,系统吞吐量能够逼近最优.大量仿真结果验证了算法的有效性.     

移动Ad hoc网络中的服务质量保障问题

本文首先介绍了Ad hoc网络中提供QoS保证面临的各种困难，详细讨论了动态服务质量保证机制以及具有QoS能力的中间适配机制，阐述了Ad hoc网络的QoS信令机制、QoS路由和支持QoS的MAC协议及QoS的衡量尺度和QoS路由，并给出了结论。     

基于网络编码与空时编码的协作MAC协议

针对无线ad hoc网络中协作造成的中继效率低以及不同QoS需求难以满足等问题,提出了一种联合网络编码和空时编码的协作MAC协议(NSTCMAC)。NSTCMAC将网络编码与空时编码技术相结合,设计出区分业务类型的协作MAC协议传输机制,以满足不同业务类型的QoS需求;进一步通过马尔科夫链模型分析了区分业务类型的协作机制及性能。仿真结果表明,相比传统的DCF、COOPMAC以及CD-MAC协议,NSTCMAC协议能更好地保证不同的QoS需求,并能有效地解决协作造成的中继效率低的问题。     

浅析无线局域网QoS机制

无线局域网（WLAN）技术的发展带来的多媒体业务流量的剧增,是无线网络的资源管理、服务质量（QoS）保障等问题日益突出,传统的媒体访问控制（MAC）协议需要重新设计才能对无线网络的QoS问题进行有效的解决。本文介绍了无限局域网QoS技术的发展,包括针对IEEE802．11MAC层协议进行的各种QoS增强技术。通过与传统的802．11标准的MAC层进行对比分析,讨论了IEEE802．11e的两个新的策略：增强的分布式协调功能和混合协调功能。通过对受控竞争机制的分析,指出了IEEE802．11e仍存在的不足及未来的发展方向。     

移动Ad hoc网络轮询接入控制协议

该文对Ad hoc网络的MAC层协议进行了研究,通过对无线令牌环协议(WTRP)进行改进,提出了一种新的具有QoS保障的无竞争的分布式并行无线轮询访问协议(DPWPAP),并采用嵌入Markov链和概率母函数的分析方法,用限定服务规则进行了系统建模,在系统模型的基础上得到了系统的平均排队队长以及平均等待时间的解析结果.理论分析和仿真结果是一致的,表明该协议的排队等待延迟和平均等待队列长度均比WTRP有很大降低,稳定性大大增强,更加适用于对时延要求较高的业务.     

无线局域网QoS机制解析

无线局域网（WLAN）技术的发展带来的多媒体业务流量的剧增,使无线网络的资源管理、服务质量（QoS）保障等问题日益突出,传统的媒体访问控制（MAC）协议需要重新设计才能有效地解决无线网络的QoS问题。本文介绍了无限局域网QoS技术的发展,包括针对IEEE802．11 MAC层协议进行的各种QoS增强技术。通过与传统的802．11标准的MAC层进行对比分析．讨论了IEEE802．11e的2个新策略：增强的分布式协调功能和混合协调功能。通过对受控竞争机制的分析,指出了IEEE802．11e仍存在的不足及未来的发展方向。     

MLAP: a MAC level access protocol for the HFC 802.14 network

Interactive residential broadband/multimedia services are expected to be the next main event in the cyberspace experience. The large excess bandwidth (well over 300 MHz) available in today's cable TV (CATV) hybrid fiber/coaxial (HFC) plants is an ideal candidate to provide the underlying communications infrastructure for interactive digital services to the home; cable operators that have not yet upgraded their all-coaxial plants to HFC are quickly moving in this direction. MLAP is a flexible ATM-friendly MAC protocol that is capable of supporting various types of traffic with diverse quality-of-service requirements. We introduce a very versatile MAC protocol for the HFC 802.14 network. MLAP can provide integrated broadband services to the home, internetwork easily with ATM wide area networks, support QoS constraints for various types of traffic, and operate over a variety of physical layer protocols. Our presentation is only an extended summary of our medium-sharing protocol proposal to the IEEE 802.14 WG. We consider only error-free system operation. MLAP provides for the use of timers for the recovery of error situations in the network. MLAP is also supported by a management suite of protocols for management of the overall system     

QoS support for integrated services over CATV

Cable TV has emerged as a promising access network infrastructure for the delivery of voice, video, and high-speed data traffic. A central issue in the design of protocols for CATV networks is to support different levels of QoS for diverse user applications. While CATV service providers and equipment have standardized, in the so-called MCNS protocol, the basic network architecture and interfaces, issues in the MAC layer for QoS support are likely to be left for differentiation in vendor products. This article first presents an overview of the basic CATV network architectural assumptions and the set of QoS requirements for supporting integrated services over CATV. It then discusses a MAC layer scheduling protocol that can efficiently multiplex constant bit rate traffic, such as voice over IP with guaranteed delay bound, and best-effort traffic, such as data services with minimum bit rate guarantee, while achieving fairness on any excess available bandwidth. The performance of this algorithm is illustrated by simulation results using Opnet. We also discuss a dynamic polling mechanism that enhances the link utilization while preserving delay bounds for latency-critical traffic     

Neural bandwidth allocation function (NBAF) control scheme at WiMAX MAC layer interface

The paper proposes a bandwidth allocation scheme to be applied at the interface between upper layers (IP, in this paper) and Medium Access Control (MAC) layer over IEEE 802.16 protocol stack. The aim is to optimally tune the resource allocation to match objective QoS (Quality of Service) requirements. Traffic flows characterized by different performance requirements at the IP layer are conveyed to the IEEE 802.16 MAC layer. This process leads to the need for providing the necessary bandwidth at the MAC layer so that the traffic flow can receive the requested QoS. The proposed control algorithm is based on real measures processed by a neural network and it is studied within the framework of optimal bandwidth allocation and Call Admission Control in the presence of statistically heterogeneous flows. Specific implementation details are provided to match the application of the control algorithm by using the existing features of 802.16 request–grant protocol acting at MAC layer. The performance evaluation reported in the paper shows the quick reaction of the bandwidth allocation scheme to traffic variations and the advantage provided in the number of accepted calls. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

传感器网络多路径区分服务的Qos路由协议

针对传感器网络多类型业务混合传输时服务质量难以保证的问题,提出一种多路径区分服务的QoS路由协议DSMQR(Differentiated Services Multipath QoS Routing Protocol)。该协议利用跨层协作的思想设计了传感器网络节点的通信模型,通过网络层与MAC层协作处理建立区分服务框架,采用以数据为中心的多优先级队列调度分发模式,利用综合代价函数实现了多业务流的路由路径选取。仿真实验表明,DSMQR能够满足传感器网络时延敏感分组与可靠性敏感分组的QoS需求,有效地优化利用了系统资源。      

Efficient protocols for multimedia streams on WDMA networks

This paper introduces a new approach to integrate different types of medium access control (MAC) protocols into a single wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) network system. The WDM network is based on a passive star coupler, and the purpose of integrating different MAC protocols is to efficiently accommodate various types of multimedia traffic streams with different characteristics and quality of service demands. Our integrated MAC protocol is termed multimedia wavelength-division multiple-access (M-WDMA). Three types of multimedia traffic streams are considered in this paper: constant-bit-rate traffic and two classes of variable-bit-rate traffic. Accordingly, three tunable transmitters and one fixed home channel receiver are used in the design of each WDM node. The transmitters transmit the three types of multimedia traffic streams in a pipeline fashion so as to overcome the tuning time overhead and to support parallel transmissions of traffic streams that emerge simultaneously. We further incorporate a dynamic bandwidth allocation scheme that dynamically adjusts the portions of bandwidth occupied by the three types of traffic streams according to their demands. Consequently the M-WDMA protocol achieves high utilization and efficiently adapts to the demands of the multimedia streams so as to guarantee their QoS. The performance of the M-WDMA is evaluated through a simple analytical model and extensive discrete-event simulations. It is shown that the M-WDMA can satisfy the QoS requirements of various mixes of multimedia traffic streams even under very stringent requirements. Moreover, we show that the M-WDMA outperforms conventional MAC protocols for WDM networks. As a result, we expect M-WDMA to be a good multimedia MAC candidate protocol for future-generation WDM networks.     

Efficient Radio Resource Management in Integrated WLAN/CDMA Mobile Networks

The complementary characteristics of wireless local area networks (WLANs) and wideband code division multiple access (CDMA) cellular networks make it attractive to integrate these two technologies. How to utilize the overall radio resources optimally in this heterogeneous integrated environment is a challenging issue. This paper proposes an optimal joint session admission control scheme for multimedia traffic that maximizes overall network revenue with quality of service (QoS) constraints over both WLANs and CDMA cellular networks. WLANs operate under IEEE 802.11e medium access control (MAC) protocol, which supports QoS for multimedia traffic. A cross-layer optimization approach is used in CDMA networks taking into account both physical layer linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) receivers and network layer QoS requirements. Numerical examples illustrate that the network revenue earned in the proposed joint admission control scheme is significantly more than that when the individual networks are optimized independently.     

Design and analysis of a denial-of-service-resistant quality-of-service signaling protocol for MANETs

Quality-of-service (QoS) signaling protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are highly vulnerable to attacks. In particular, a class of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks can severely cripple network performance with relatively little effort expended by the attacker. A distributed QoS signaling protocol that is resistant to a class of DoS attacks on signaling is proposed. The signaling protocol provides QoS for real-time traffic and employs mechanisms at the medium access control (MAC) layer, which serve to avoid potential attacks on network resource usage. The key MAC layer mechanisms that provide support for the QoS signaling scheme include sensing of available bandwidth, traffic policing, and rate monitoring, all of which are performed in a distributed manner by the mobile nodes. The proposed signaling scheme achieves a compromise between signaling protocols that require the maintenance of per-flow state and those that are completely stateless. The signaling scheme scales gracefully in terms of the number of nodes and/or traffic flows in the MANET. The authors analyze the security properties of the protocol and present simulation results to demonstrate its resistance to DoS attacks.     

A cross-layer scheme for medium access control with QoS guaranteeing for Ad hoc networks

1 Introduction medium access control (MAC) protocols play a crucial role in determining the performance of Ad hoc networks. However, the design of MAC protocols for Ad hoc networks has traditionally been separated from that of the physical layer. In most …     

802.16宽带无线接入系统的QoS保证和调度策略

IEEE 802.16 (以下简称802.16)宽带无线接入标准最突出的特点就是在其MAC层引入了完整的QoS机制,可以为用户提供电信级的QoS支持,这在宽带无线接入网发展里程中具有重要的意义.本文详细描述了标准MAC层的QoS结构及相关的MAC层机制,并对其QoS机制中的调度策略进行了研究.     

PRIN: A Priority-Based Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Varying the Sample Inter-Arrival Time

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are used in a variety of applications to sense and transfer information to the centralized node with energy efficiency increasing the network’s lifespan. Other factors, such as quality of service (QoS) is also important to improve the performance of the WSNs, by increasing throughput and reducing end-to-end delay. In this paper, we evaluate the importance of QoS in the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for WSNs using different metrics and parameters such as energy efficiency, throughput, delay, and the network lifespan. We propose a new QoS MAC protocol, “PRIority in Node” (PRIN), using static priority in the source and the intermediate node and priority among the node which is one hop from the sink node to achieve QoS in WSNs. Simulation results are compared with those of the synchronous MAC protocol in terms of QoS parameters to show the improved performance of the proposed MAC protocol.