下一代WLAN技术标准802.11ac/ad

基于IEEE802.11n标准的WLAN能够支持高达600 Mbit/s的传输速率,但在支持无线高清视频传输等高吞吐量无线数据业务时仍然会遇到瓶颈。面对这一挑战I,EEE已启动下一代WLAN技术标准802.11ac和802.11ad的制定工作,数据吞吐量将达到几个Gbit/s,能够更好地满足快速增长的市场需求。     

基于分组到达率的IEEE802.11无线局域网区分服务方法

本文针对IEEE 802.11无线局域网提出了一种基于分组到达率的区分服务实现方法,建立了一种基于二维马尔可夫链的分析模型,结果表明,在控制网络总的负荷的情况下,该方法可有效实现吞吐量的区分并且能够为各个业务流提供统计意义上的吞吐量保证.另外,该方法易于实现而且不需要对IEEE 802.11硬件做任何改动.仿真实验结果表明分析模型相当准确.     

两种提高IEEE802.11b WLAN 物理层数据传输速率的编码技术

本文提出两种将IEEE802.11bWLAN物理层数据速率提高到16.5Mbps的编码和译码方法。这两个方案都继续采用原IEEE802.11b中对于5.5和11Mbps速率所采用的CCK编码方法。两个方案的编码过程变化不大，第一方案的译码还是采用对5.5和11Mbps数据率所使用的快速WALSH变换（FWT），第二个方案的译码被修改成适合16.5Mbps数据率的快速WALSH变换（FWT）。最后通过仿真比较了这两个方案在无多径干扰的AWGN信道上的性能，结果表明第二个方案优于第一个。     

Wi-Fi认证为802.11n保驾护航

新一代无线局域网标准IEEE 802．11n的制定完成令人期待。但巨大的市场潜力促使无线局域网厂商纷纷提前推出了11n草案产品，由于所采用标准的不统一，致使11n产品间的互联互通问题层出不穷，针对这一情况，Wi—Fi联盟制定了Wi-Fi 11n（草案2．0）互操作测试方法，以确保11n草案产品之间良好的互操作性，也为今后准标准化产品向802．11n最终版本的升级奠定了基础。     

IEEE802.11与高级红外无线AIr MAC协议的性能比较

红外线作为室内通信无线传输媒质,具有低成本、低功耗等特点.本文描述 了IEEE 802.11红外局域网媒质访问控制协议（MAC）和红外数据协会（IrDA）提出的高级红外媒质访问控制层协议（AIr MAC）;研究了两种协议性能估计模型并利用OPNET仿真工具对IEEE 802.11 MAC与高级红外AIr MAC接入性能进行了仿真验证.通过对两种MAC协议接入方式、吞吐量性能估计模型以及吞吐量性能仿真结果进行比较分析,总结了IEEE 802.11红外局域网媒质接入协议和高级红外媒质接入协议之间的不同之处.     

一种基于IEEE 802．11a的PHY—MAC跨层设计

文章基于IEEE802．11a协议,从理论上分析了物理层的编码速率、调制方式,以及MAC层的数据帧长度对吞吐率的影响,提出一种基于PHY和MAC层的跨层算法。仿真结果表明,文章提出的PHY-MAC跨层传输方案能显著提高系统的数据吞吐率。     

无线MESH网络拓扑控制研究

作为下一代无线网络中的一种新型网络结构,无线MESH网受到了广泛关注。MESH网络节点间的自组织组网方式,使得网络具有良好的灵活性、鲁棒性,同时也使得MESH网络的性能称为研究的重点。从功率控制和信道分配等方面研究了MESH网络的虚拟骨干结构的拓扑优化,功率控制通过调节节点发射功率来改变其对邻居节点的影响;信道分配利用正交信道的相互不连通性质改变节点对于邻居节点的影响,以降低链路间的干扰、维护网络连通性、提高系统容量。     

Increasing fairness and efficiency using the MadMac protocol in ad hoc networks

The IEEE 802.11 MAC layer is known for its unfairness behavior in ad hoc networks. Introducing fairness in the 802.11 MAC protocol may lead to a global throughput decrease. It is still a real challenge to design a fair MAC protocol for ad hoc networks that is distributed, topology independent, that relies on no explicit information exchanges and that is efficient, i.e. that achieves a good aggregate throughput. The MadMac protocol deals with fairness and throughput by maximizing aggregate throughput when unfairness is solved. Fairness provided by MadMac is only based on information provided by the 802.11 MAC layer. MadMac has been tested in many configurations that are known to be unfair and compared with three protocols (IEEE 802.11 and two fair MAC protocols). In these configurations, MadMac provides a good aggregate throughput while solving the fairness issues.     

Performance Analysis for a New Medium Access Control Protocol in Wireless LANs

One fundamental issue in high-speed wireless local area networks (LANs) is to develop efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols. In this paper, we focus on the performance improvement in both MAC layer and transport layer by using a novel medium access control protocol for high-speed wireless LANs deploying carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA). We first present a recently proposed distributed contention-based MAC protocol utilizing a Fast Collision Resolution (FCR) algorithm and show that the proposed FCR algorithm provides high throughput and low latency while improving the fairness performance. The performance of the FCR algorithm is compared with that of the IEEE 802.11 MAC algorithm via extensive simulation studies on both MAC layer and transport layer. The results show that the FCR algorithm achieves a significantly higher efficiency than the IEEE 802.11 MAC and can significantly improve transport layer performance.     

IEEE 802.11s网络及其性能评估

无线局域网标准IEEE 802.11是一种较低成本的无线数据传输方案。无线网状网的产生解决了无线局域网覆盖范围小的问题。IEEE Task Group S早在2004年就开始策划制定关于无线网状网多跳通信,MAC层路由转发以及安全的标准——IEEE 802.11s。介绍了IEEE 802.11s最新的草案标准,并通过试验床的设计与试验评估了当前基于IEEE 802.11s无线网状网网络的整体性能。最后探讨了视频应用在IEEE 802.11s中的可行性。     

基于干扰图的无线自组织网络MAC协议

由于IEEE802．11MAC协议采用了简单的干扰模型，因此产生了隐藏终端和暴露终端这两个严重影响无线自组织网络性能的问题。文章提出了一种新的基于干扰图（Conflict Graph）的MAC协议——CG-MAC来提高无线自组织网络的吞吐量。通过仿真实验，该协议能够同时解决隐藏终端和暴露终端问题．很大程度地提高了网络性能。     

IEEE 802.11 WLAN支持语音与数据业务的自适应传输方案研究

IEEE 802.11标准中的MAC协议当采用DCF和PCF时是一种随机竞争接入与轮询相结合的协议。该文通过仿真在分析研究此MAC协议对语音、数据业务综合传输性能的基础上,提出了一种支持语音与数据业务的自适应传输方案。仿真结果表明,在满足语音业务最大允许时延的前提下,自适应传输方案通过动态、合理地调整协议参数,可以提高数据业务的传输性能,从而增加网络容量。特别地,本方案不需要改动协议本身,易于实现。     

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。     

一种新的用于IEEE 802.11e EDCA中提供QoS的方法

该文提出了一种新的应用于IEEE 802.11e EDCA (Enhanced Distributed Channel Access)中提供QoS(Quality of Service)的方法。这种方法是将几个时隙组合起来构成一个超时隙,每个超时隙的开始分配给不同的业务来进行发包。时隙的分配是根据各种业务的不同优先级来实现的。这种方法可以保证高优先级业务具有较大的吞吐量,较少的MAC延时和较低的丢包率。与802.11e EDCA草案中提出的不同冲突窗口大小的方法相比,这种方法具有可以提高吞吐量,降低丢包率,并能减小站点数目变化对高优先级业务吞吐量的影响等优点。这种新的提供QoS的方法优于不同冲突窗口大小的方法,在IEEE 802.11e EDCA中应用超时隙方法可以大大提高EDCA的性能。     

下一代无线局域网——HEW

一直以来,无线局域网(WLAN)技术都是以提升吞吐量作为主要演进目标,每一代WLAN标准在吞吐量上都会比上一代有大幅提升。当前,最新制定的WLAN标准(IEEE 802.11ac/ad)理论最高吞吐量接近7Gbit/s。然而,在现实的组网环境中(特别是大规模密集组网时),WLAN性能常常与设计性能相去甚远,难以提供良好的用户体验。针对这一问题,IEEE近期启动了下一代无线局域网标准——High Efficiency WLAN(HEW)的研究工作。除了进一步提升频谱效率之外,HEW还将重点提升覆盖范围内各区域的整体吞吐量和各种室内外网络部署环境下的真实性能。     

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。     

A survey of QoS enhancements for IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN

Quality‐of‐service (QoS) is a key problem of today's IP networks. Many frameworks (IntServ, DiffServ, MPLS etc.) have been proposed to provide service differentiation in the Internet. At the same time, the Internet is becoming more and more heterogeneous due to the recent explosion of wireless networks. In wireless environments, bandwidth is scarce and channel conditions are time‐varying and sometimes highly lossy. Many previous research works show that what works well in a wired network cannot be directly applied in the wireless environment. Although IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN (WLAN) is the most widely used IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN (WLAN) standard today, it cannot provide QoS support for the increasing number of multimedia applications. Thus, a large number of 802.11 QoS enhancement schemes have been proposed, each one focusing on a particular mode. This paper summarizes all these schemes and presents a survey of current research activities. First, we analyze the QoS limitations of IEEE 802.11 wireless MAC layers. Then, different QoS enhancement techniques proposed for 802.11 WLAN are described and classified along with their advantages/drawbacks. Finally, the upcoming IEEE 802.11e QoS enhancement standard is introduced and studied in detail. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

DCF传输MPEG-4视频流的研究

IEEE 802.11无线局域网的基本接入方式是分布式协调功能(DCF)。当无线局域网中的负载变大时,采用DCF的站点可能在成功发送之前需要延迟几秒以上。这将严重影响MPEG-4视频流等实时应用的性能。该文针对实时应用提出了一种DCF的改进机制L-DCF,并介绍了在L-DCF下如何传输MPEG-4视频流。仿真结果表明,与DCF相比,采用L-DCF的MPEG-4视频流将经历较少的时延和抖动,同时又具有与采用DCF时相同的吞吐量与公平性,因此能够获得更好的播放质量。     

Model-based admission control for IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access

IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) is a distributed medium access scheme based on carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) protocol. In this paper, a model-based admission control (MBAC) scheme that performs real-timely at medium access control (MAC) layer is proposed for the decision of accepting or rejecting requests for adding traffic streams to an IEEE 802.11e EDCA wireless local area network (WLAN). The admission control strategy is implemented in access point (AP), which employs collision probability and access delay measures from active flows to estimate throughput and packet delay of each traffic class by the proposed unsaturation analytical model. Simulation results prove accuracy of the proposed analytical model and effectiveness of MBAC scheme.     

A traffic control system for IEEE 802.11 networks based on available bandwidth estimation

To support Quality of service (QoS)‐sensitive applications like real‐time video streaming in IEEE 802.11 networks, a MAC layer extension for QoS, IEEE 802.11e, has been recently ratified as a standard. This MAC layer solution, however, addresses only the issue of prioritized access to the wireless medium and leaves such issues as QoS guarantee and admission control to the traffic control systems at the higher layers. This paper presents an IP‐layer traffic control system for IEEE 802.11 networks based on available bandwidth estimation. We build an analytical model for estimating the available bandwidth by extending an existing throughput computation model, and implement a traffic control system that provides QoS guarantees and admission control by utilizing the estimated available bandwidth information. We have conducted extensive performance evaluation of the proposed scheme via both simulations and measurements in the real test‐bed. The experiment results show that our estimation model and traffic control system work accurately and effectively in various network load conditions without IEEE 802.11e. The presence of IEEE 802.11e will allow even more efficient QoS provision, as the proposed scheme and the MAC layer QoS support will complement each other. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.