无线Ad Hoc网络MAC层速率自适应技术研究

目前的IEEE802.11标准虽然在物理层提供了对多速率的支持,但是在MAC（媒体接入控制,Media Access Control）层却没有规定速率自适应的方法。研究了无线Ad Hoc网络（自组织网）中的速率自适应技术,针对RBAR协议存在的不足提出了一种改进的MAC层速率自适应协议,该协议实现简单,与标准的兼容性好,对信道的变化适应能力更强。仿真结果表明,该协议比RBAR协议具有更好的性能。     

无线Ad hoc网络速率自适应MAC协议研究

无线Ad hoc网络多采用IEEE802.11系列标准,在物理层为数据传输提供了多速率能力。为了充分利用多速率能力提高系统的吞吐量,速率自适应MAC协议根据对当前信道质量的估计,选择最佳的数据传输速率。在分析了速率自适应MAC协议的基本工作过程之后,重点综述了目前存在的速率自适应MAC协议,并讨论了进一步研究的方向。     

一种3GPP LTE网络的TCP拥塞控制方法

现有的传输控制协议(TCP)拥塞控制机制源自有线网络,未考虑无线基站介质访问控制(MAC)层调度器的特性,影响了TCP协议在长期演进(LTE)系统上的传输性能。提出一种跨层的TCP拥塞控制方法,由MAC层和TCP共同解决TCP虚假超时问题。此方法中,MAC层提供超时信息,TCP层识别出虚假超时后调整数据速率,从而避免系统性能损失,保证MAC层稳定工作。仿真结果表明,在保证用户公平性的同时,新方法可以有效解决虚假超时问题,提高用户实际吞吐量。     

WLAN有效的速率自适应机制

针对无线局域网的速率自适应问题,提出了一种有效的速率自适应机制,该机制考虑了节点在发送过程中因传输模式导致的干扰与冲突情况,以及物理层因素与MAC(Medium Access Control)层因素的同时,以优化系统吞吐量性能为目标,自适应地选择传输速率,仿真实验及与现有的机制比较表明,提出的速率自适应机制不仅可以提高系统的吞吐量,而且能有效地提高业务的服务质量.     

基于IEEE 802.11高速无线局域网的速率自适应MAC协议研究

目前的IEEE 802.11标准在物理层提供了对多种发送速率的支持,然而在MAC层却没有规定速率自适应的方法。该文研究了高速IEEE 802.11 无线局域网中的速率自适应方案。首先,提出了EACK协议,EACK使用基本速率发送MAC头,并在ACK帧中携带信道信息,因而能够较快速地响应信道的变化,同时具有少的开销;其次,在EACK基础上,提出了一种恒定发送时间(CEACK)的策略,CEACK能够克服传统IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC协议的理论吞吐量上限,并且具有更好的时间公平性能,能够应用于高速的无线局域网。     

无线ad hoc网络中基于帧传输效率的拥塞控制方法

提出以一种基于帧传输效率的MAC层拥塞通告机制,当中间节点检测到帧传输效率小于某一阈值时,通过ECN通告使发送方主动降低发送速率.该机制只需在链路层完成,不需改变现有的传输层协议.仿真结果表明该方法能较大地提高网络的效率,尤其在多流情况下比原有的TCP协议的吞吐量提高了50%左右,同时能够保证多流之间的公平性.     

自适应速率需求的无线Ad hoc网络MAC协议

在802.11的基础上,从服务质量(QoS)中的速率需求角度出发,采取了跨层设计的方法,把应用层对数据传输速率的需求直接同MAC层中对无线信道的随机接入过程相结合,提出了一种自适应速率需求的Ad hoc无线网络MAC协议(Rate-requirement Aware Adaptive MAC Protocol,RAA-MAC).模拟实验的结果显示,与802.11协议相比,RAA-MAC在网络吞吐量、数据包延迟等性能上有较大提高.     

基于邻近空间链路协议的自适应变速率传输系统设计

针对深空信道传输距离长、传输时延变化快、接收信号信噪比低、误码率要求高等特点,固定速率传输会对系统吞吐量造成严重影响,很难同时确保通信传输的有效性和可靠性,并根据CCSDS-Proximity-1标准,提出了一种符合协议标准的自适应变速率传输系统设计。该方案可对接收信号进行信噪比估计,通过信噪比估计值判断信道质量,动态的调整收发机的传输速率,保证系统性能满足协议标准。在此基础上,以Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA为核心进行硬件仿真验证,与固定速率相比,分析比较了自适应系统误码率与吞吐量。实验结果表明,在0dB以上的高斯白噪声中,该自适应数字收发机设计具有较高的吞吐量与较低的误码率,可以有效保障深空信道的有效性与可靠性。     

无线局域网中基于博弈论的速率自适应机制

针对无线局域网标准并没有给出速率自适应机制的问题,提出了一种基于博弈论的速率自适应机制GRAS.GRAS在考虑信道干扰与碰撞的前提下,对MAC(medium access control)层性能进行了数学描述,给出了终端与系统有效吞吐量的理论表达式,建立了以有效吞吐量为性能指标的速率自适应博弈策略.仿真实验及与现有速率自适应机制的比较表明,提出的GRAS不仅能适应移动环境中干扰及信道的变化,而且显著地提高了系统的吞吐量与实时业务的服务质量.     

在多跳Ad hoc网络中基于路由协议的TCP性能改进

在MAC层基于IEEE802．11的多跳Ad hoc网络中，底层频繁的冲突严重影响了TCP的性能。文中提出并实现了一种依靠路由协议向上层屏蔽底层短暂而频繁的中断，从而提高TCP报文传输成功率的方案。仿真结果表明该方案使得TCP丢包率大幅下降，TCP吞吐量获得了从12％到200％不等的改善幅度。     

Design of coordinator to eliminate redundant local retransmission in wireless networks

Owing to limited bandwidth, high bit error rate, and bursty error in the wireless environment, the performance of the transmission control protocol (TCP) degrades greatly in wireless networks.Up to now, many researchers have contributed greatly to the wireless TCP field.However, in most of their works, the wireless TCP module usually works in the TCP layer and has no idea of the actual time of the packet transmission, which is determined by the Scheduler in the media access control (MAC) layer, and this will bring the inaccuracy to the local retransmission timeout and induce the redundant local retransmission.In this article, a coordinator is introduced into the base-station (BS), which can provide efficient cooperation between the TCP module and the scheduler module.On the bais of the performance analysis and simulation results, the proposed method is shown to eliminate redundant local retransmission, increase throughput, and improve TCP-level fairness in wireless networks.Moreover, this scheme is orthogonal to those existing wireless TCP schemes, thus it can give great compatibility to the current networks, and further enhance the performance of TCP under the condition that the performance improvement benefiting from the existing approaches will not be affected.     

Wireless video streaming with TCP and simultaneous MAC packet transmission (SMPT)

Video streaming is expected to account for a large portion of the traffic in future networks, including wireless networks. It is widely accepted that the user datagram protocol (UDP) is the preferred transport protocol for video streaming and that the transmission control protocol (TCP) is unsuitable for streaming. The widespread use of UDP, however, has a number of drawbacks, such as unfairness and possible congestion collapse, which are avoided by TCP. In this paper we investigate the use of TCP as the transport layer protocol for streaming video in a multi‐code CDMA cellular wireless system. Our approach is to stabilize the TCP throughput over the wireless links by employing a recently developed simultaneous MAC packet transmission (SMPT) approach at the link layer. We study the capacity, i.e. the number of customers per cell, and the quality of service for streaming video in the uplink direction. Our extensive simulations indicate that streaming over TCP in conjunction with SMPT gives good performance for video encoded in a closed loop, i.e. with rate control. We have also found that TCP is unsuitable (even in conjunction with SMPT) for streaming the more variable open‐loop encoded video. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Throughput Analysis and Measurements in IEEE 802.11 WLANs with TCP and UDP Traffic Flows

There is a vast literature on the throughput analysis of the IEEE 802.11 media access control (MAC) protocol. However, very little has been done on investigating the interplay between the collision avoidance mechanisms of the 802.11 MAC protocol and the dynamics of upper layer transport protocols. In this paper, we tackle this issue from an analytical, simulative, and experimental perspective. Specifically, we develop Markov chain models to compute the distribution of the number of active stations in an 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) when long-lived transmission control protocol (TCP) connections compete with finite-load user datagram protocol (UDP) flows. By embedding these distributions in the MAC protocol modeling, we derive approximate but accurate expressions of the TCP and UDP throughput. We validate the model accuracy through performance tests carried out in a real WLAN for a wide range of configurations. Our analytical model and the supporting experimental outcomes show that 1) the total TCP throughput is basically independent of the number of open TCP connections and the aggregate TCP traffic can be equivalently modeled as two saturated flows; and 2) in the saturated regime, n UDP flows obtain about n times the aggregate throughput achieved by the TCP flows, which is independent of the overall number of persistent TCP connections.     

太赫兹网络中基于中继的高效双信道MAC协议

现有的太赫兹无线个域网双信道介质访问控制(MAC)协议工作在WiFi和太赫兹信道。由于这两种信道的频率相差极大,导致使用全向天线和定向天线的覆盖范围各不相同,这样便会使节点之间的消息传输成功率大大降低,同时也降低了网络整体的吞吐量。另外,在现有的太赫兹无线网络双信道MAC协议中还存在一定的冗余控制开销,这导致了信道利用率低。基于此,文章提出一种太赫兹无线网络中基于中继的高效双信道MAC协议(HE-BRMAC),HE-BRMAC分为中继辅助和自适应减少控制开销机制。通过这两种机制可达到提高消息传输成功率、提升网络整体吞吐量、减少控制开销和提高信道利用率的效果,尤其当节点数较多时,HE-BRMAC的效果更为显著。     

Design of an enhanced access point to optimize TCP performance in Wi-Fi hotspot networks

In the last years, the number of Wi-Fi hotspots at public venues has undergone a substantial growth, promoting the WLAN technologies as the ubiquitous solution to provide high-speed wireless connectivity in public areas. However, the adoption of a random access CSMA-based paradigm for the 802.11 MAC protocol makes difficult to ensure high throughput and a fair allocation of radio resources in 802.11-based WLANs. In this paper we evaluate extensively via simulations the interaction between the flow control mechanisms implemented at the TCP layer and the contention avoidance techniques used at the 802.11 MAC layer. We conducted our study considering initially M wireless stations performing downloads from the Internet. From our results, we observed that the TCP downlink throughput is not limited by the collision events, but by the inability of the MAC protocol to assign a higher chance of accessing the channel to the base station. We propose a simple and easy to implement modification of the base station’s behavior with the purpose of increasing the TCP throughput reducing useless MAC protocol overheads. With our scheme, the base station is allowed to transmit periodically bursts of data frames towards the mobile hosts. We design a resource allocation protocol aimed at maximizing the success probability of the uplink transmissions by dynamically adapting the burst length to the collision probability estimated by the base station. By its design, our scheme is also beneficial to achieve a fairer allocation of the channel bandwidth among the downlink and uplink flows, and among TCP and UDP flows. Simulation results confirm both the improvement in the TCP downlink throughput and the reduction of system unfairness.     

TCP with delayed ack for wireless networks

This paper studies the TCP performance with delayed ack in wireless networks (including ad hoc and WLANs) which use IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol as the underlying medium access control. Our analysis and simulations show that TCP throughput does not always benefit from an unrestricted delay policy. In fact, for a given topology and flow pattern, there exists an optimal delay window size at the receiver that produces best TCP throughput. If the window is set too small, the receiver generates too many acks and causes channel contention; on the other hand, if the window is set too high, the bursty transmission at the sender triggered by large cumulative acks will induce interference and packet losses, thus degrading the throughout. In wireless networks, packet losses are also related to the length of TCP path; when traveling through a longer path, a packet is more likely to suffer interference. Therefore, path length is an important factor to consider when choosing appropriate delay window sizes. In this paper, we first propose an adaptive delayed ack mechanism which is suitable for ad hoc networks, then we propose a more general adaptive delayed ack scheme for ad hoc and hybrid networks. The simulation results show that our schemes can effectively improve TCP throughput by up to 25% in static networks, and provide more significant gain in mobile networks. The proposed schemes are simple and easy to deploy. The real testbed experiments are also presented to verify our approaches. Furthermore, a simple and effective receiver-side probe and detection is proposed to improve friendliness between the standard TCP and our proposed TCP with adaptive delayed ack.     

Cross-Layer Enhancement to Support TCP-Based Traffics in WLANs

Widespread deployment of wireless local area networks and a gradual increase in streaming applications have brought about a demand for improved quality of service (QoS) in wireless networks. However, increasing user datagram protocol based high priority multimedia traffic and the class differentiation introduced in QoS protocols, has resulted into transmission control protocol (TCP) starvation and increased spurious timeouts. While today’s Internet traffic is still dominated by TCP based applications, the negative effects of IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed coordination function (EDCF) scheme on TCP performance in the presence of high priority traffic have not been extensively explored. In this paper, the performance of TCP in 802.11e WLAN competing with high priority traffic is examined. The prioritised adaptive enhanced scheme (PAD_EDCF) is proposed. The proposed scheme gives priority to TCP control packets in order to improve the low traffic transmission flow and acquires additional capability of adjusting the MAC parameters based on the traffic load condition. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme significantly improves TCP performances in terms of traffic efficiency, throughput and reduces delay.     

TCP Performance in IEEE 802.11-Based Ad Hoc Networks with Multiple Wireless Lossy Links

We propose a packet-level model to investigate the impact of channel error on the transmission control protocol (TCP) performance over IEEE-802.11-based multihop wireless networks. A Markov renewal approach is used to analyze the behavior of TCP Reno and TCP Impatient NewReno. Compared to previous work, our main contributions are listed as follows: 1) modeling multiple lossy links, 2) investigating the interactions among TCP, Internet Protocol (IP), and media access control (MAC) protocol layers, specifically the impact of 802.11 MAC protocol and dynamic source routing (DSR) protocol on TCP throughput performance, 3) considering the spatial reuse property of the wireless channel, the model takes into account the different proportions between the interference range and transmission range, and 4) adopting more accurate and realistic analysis to the fast recovery process and showing the dependency of throughput and the risk of experiencing successive fast retransmits and timeouts on the packet error probability. The analytical results are validated against simulation results by using GloMoSim. The results show that the impact of the channel error is reduced significantly due to the packet retransmissions on a per-hop basis and a small bandwidth delay product of ad hoc networks. The TCP throughput always deteriorates less than ~ 10 percent, with a packet error rate ranging from 0 to 0.1. Our model also provides a theoretical basis for designing an optimum long retry limit for IEEE 802.11 in ad hoc networks.