Power Management Based Grid Routing Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Based MANET

MANET(Mobile Ad Hoc Network)is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a temporary communica-tion network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration.The lifetime of a MANETdepends on the battery resources of the mobile nodes.So energy consumption may one of important design criterions forMANET.With changing the idle model to sleep model in the grid environment,this paper proposes a new energy-awarerouting protocol.Performance simulation results show that the proposed strategy can dynamic balance the traffic load in-side the whole network,extend the lifetime of a MANET,and without decreasing the throughput ratio.     

FHCF: A Simple and Efficient Scheduling Scheme for IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN

The IEEE 802.11e medium access control (MAC) layer protocol is an emerging standard to support quality of service (QoS) in 802.11 wireless networks. Some recent work shows that the 802.11e hybrid coordination function (HCF) can improve significantly the QoS support in 802.11 networks. A simple HCF referenced scheduler has been proposed in the 802.11e which takes into account the QoS requirements of flows and allocates time to stations on the basis of the mean sending rate. As we show in this paper, this HCF referenced scheduling algorithm is only efficient and works well for flows with strict constant bit rate (CBR) characteristics. However, a lot of real-time applications, such as videoconferencing, have some variations in their packet sizes, sending rates or even have variable bit rate (VBR) characteristics. In this paper we propose FHCF, a simple and efficient scheduling algorithm for 802.11e that aims to be fair for both CBR and VBR flows. FHCF uses queue length estimations to tune its time allocation to mobile stations. We present analytical model evaluations and a set of simulations results, and provide performance comparisons with the 802.11e HCF referenced scheduler. Our performance study indicates that FHCF provides good fairness while supporting bandwidth and delay requirements for a large range of network loads. Pierre Ansel received a multidisciplinary in-depth scientific training in different fields such as Pure and Applied Mathematics, Physics, Mechanics, Computer Science and Economics from the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. Then, he joined the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France in 2005 where he went further into electronics, databases, computer network security and high speed networks. He received a multidisciplinary master of sciences degree and an additional master of sciences degree in telecommunications in 2005. He did a summer internship in 2003 in INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France where he worked on the Quality of Service in 802.11 networks at Planete Group, France. Then in 2004, he joined France Telecom R&D, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France to work on Intranet Security issues. He designed a WiFi security supervision architecture based on WiFi Intrusion Detection Sensors. He is currently a French civil servant and belongs to the French Telecommunications Corps. Qiang Ni received the B.Eng., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan City, China in 1993, 1996 and 1999 respectively. He is currently a faculty member in the Electronic and Computer Engineering Division,School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, West London, U.K. Between 2004 and 2005 he was a Senior Researcher at the Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. From 1999 to 2001, he was a post-doctoral research fellow in the multimedia and wireless communication laboratory, HUST, China. He visited and conducted research at the wireless and networking group of Microsoft Research Asia Lab during the year of 2000. From Sept. 2001 until may 2004, he was a research staff member at the Planète group of INRIA Sophia Antipolis France. Since 2002, he has been active as a voting member at the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard working group. His current research interests include communication protocol design and performance analysis for wireless networks, cross-layer optimizations, vertical handover and mobility management in mobile wireless networks, and adaptive multimedia transmission over hybrid wired/wireless networks. He has authored /co-authored over 40 international journal/conference papers, book chapters, and standard drafts in this field. He is a member of IEEE. E-mail: Qiang.Ni@ieee.org Thierry Turletti received the M.S. (1990) and the Ph.D. (1995) degrees in computer science both from the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France. He has done his PhD studies in the RODEO group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. During the year 1995–96, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Telemedia, Networks and Systems group at LCS, MIT. He is currently a research scientist at the Planete group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. His research interests include multimedia applications, congestion control and wireless networking. Dr. Turletti currently serves on the Editorial Board of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.     

A Practical Cross-Layer Mechanism For Fairness in 802.11 Networks

Many companies, organizations and communities are providing wireless hotspots that provide networking access using 802.11b wireless networks. Since wireless networks are more sensitive to variations in bandwidth and environmental interference than wired networks, most networks support a number of transmission rates that have different error and bandwidth properties. Access points can communicate with multiple clients running at different rates, but this leads to unfair bandwidth allocation. If an access point communicates with a mix of clients using both 1 Mb/s and 11 Mb/s transmission rates, the faster clients are effectively throttled to 1 Mb/s as well. This happens because the 802.11 MAC protocol approximate “station fairness”, with each station given an equal chance to access the media. We provide a solution to provide “rate proportional fairness”, where the 11 Mb/s stations receive more bandwidth than the 1 Mb/s stations. Unlike previous solutions to this problem, our mechanism is easy to implement, works with common operating systems and requires no change to the MAC protocol or the stations. Joseph Dunn received an M.S. in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2003, and B. S. in coputer science and mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2001. His research interests are in the general area of computer systems, primarily focusing on security and scalability in distributed systems. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Michael Neufeld received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in December of 2004, having previously received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2000 and an A.B. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1993. His research interests are in the general area of computer system, specifically concentrating on wireless networking, software defind/cognitive radio, and streerable antennas. He is currently a postdoc in the Computer Science department at the University of Calorado at Boulder pursuing research related to software defined radio and new MAC protocols for steerable phase array antennas. Anmol Sheth is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pune, India in 2001. He has been co-leading the development of the MANTIS operating system. He has co-authored three papers include MAC layer protocol design, energy-efficient wireless communication, and adapting communications to mobility. Dirk Grunwald received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1989 and joined the University of Colorado the same year. His work addresses research and teaching in the broad area of “computer systems”, which includes computer architecture, operating systems, networks, and storage systems. His interests also include issues in pervasive computing, novel computing models, and enjoying the mountains. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is also the Director of the Colorado Center for Information Storage. John Bennett is a Professor of Computer Science with a joint appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He also serves as Associate Dean for Education in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He joined the CU-Boulder faculty in 2000, after serving on the faculty of Rice University for 11 years. While at Rice, Bennett pioneered a course in engineering design for both engineering and non-engineering students that has been emulated at several universities and high schools. In addition to other teaching awards, Bennett received the Keck Foundation National Award for Engineering Teaching Excellence for his work on this course. Bennett received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Washington. Prior to completing his doctoral studies, he was a U.S. Naval Officer for several years and founded and served as President of Pacific Mountain Research, Inc., where he supervised the design and development of a number of commercial computing systems. Bennett's primary research interests are broadly focused in the area of distributed systems, and more narrowly in distributed information management and distributed robotic macrosensors.     

基于最佳竞争窗口的IEEE802.11DCF接入协议改进及性能分析

针对DCF协议的初始竞争窗口不能随着节点数变化选择其最佳值的不足,提出一个具有两级退避的接入协议(OCW-DCF),并用Markov模型分析了协议性能,确定其最佳竞争窗口值。仿真结果表明,OCW-DCF协议能有效减小信道接入延时,且采用基本接入模式的总体性能比RTS/CTS接入模式的好。     

802.11 DCF协议引入信道预约机制的必要性分析

论文对802.11 DCF协议引入信道预约机制的必要性问题进行了探讨.通过分析信道预约机制与隐藏/暴露终端问题之间的关系,提出一种比较隐藏终端和暴露终端出现概率大小的等效方法,并给出了相应的数值估算结果.理论分析结果验证了802.11 DCF协议引入信道预约机制的有效性.     

基于IEEE 80211e EDCA的下行信道动态无竞争接入机制*

为了改善无线局域网络服务质量,IEEE工作组形成了增补标准IEEE 802.11e,但是其增强的接入机制仍然不能完全满足IPTV、视频点播等类似场景的应用。为此提出了针对这一类应用场景的一种新的简单易行的下行信道动态无竞争接入机制,该机制基于MAC层队列长度信息动态调整下行信道接入参数,能有效地保护下行流媒体数据的传输,通过仿真结果验证了该机制有效并且实用。     

高校无线网络的设计与实现

目前,随着高校信息化建设的逐步深入和无线技术的日渐成熟,很多重要应用都顺势承载在无线网上,促使高校原有业务不断被优化,新兴业务迅速地产生.因此,构建高效、易用、安全的校园无线网络,对于高校信息化发展、智慧校园的引入具有重要的意义.介绍了基于IEEE 802.11ac协议的高校无线网络设计方案,呈现了不同应用场景的设备选型及实现过程,着重讨论了无线架构、无线控制器的转发模式以及冗余方案、智能无感知认证、三层漫游,AP智能负载均衡等无线网络建设过程中所运用的成熟、先进技术.该方案实施后,校园无线网络实现全面覆盖,快速推动了高校信息化建设.     

基于竞争窗口递减因子自适应调整退避算法

包括IEEE802.11、802.15.4标准在内的许多无线网络协议都采用二进制指数退避机制管理数据的重发。在动态分布式的网络环境中,二进制指数退避算法固定的竞争窗口递减方式难以适应动态变化的网络规模。针对这一问题,提出了一种改进的回退机制,该机制通过引入竞争窗口递减因子,自适应地调整无线节点的等待时间,以实现网络吞吐量的最大化。同时,在算法实现上提出一种启发式算法以跟踪网络中竞争节点数量的改变。在IEEE 802.11DCF协议中以相同的物理层参数进行仿真,结果表明改进算法提高了网络吞吐量,降低了分组平均接入时延。     

SRA-MSDU: Enhanced A-MSDU frame aggregation with selective retransmission in 802.11n wireless networks

The main goal of the IEEE 802.11n standard is to achieve more than 100 Mbps of throughput at the MAC service access point. This high throughput has been achieved via many enhancements in both the physical and MAC layers. One of the MAC enhancements is the frame aggregation in which multiple frames are concatenated into a single large frame before being transmitted. The 802.11n MAC layer defines two types of aggregation, aggregate MAC service data unit (A-MSDU) and aggregate MAC protocol data unit (A-MPDU). The A-MPDU outperforms A-MSDU due to its large aggregation size and the subframes retransmission in erroneous channels. However, in error free channels and under the same aggregation size the A-MSDU performs better than the A-MPDU due to its smaller headers. Thus, adding a selective retransmission capability to the A-MSDU would improve the system performance. In this paper, we have proposed an MSDU frame aggregation scheme that enables selective retransmission at the MSDU level without altering the original MAC header. In this proposed scheme an implicit sequence control mechanism has been introduced in order to keep the frames in sequence and preserve their correct order at the receiver side. The results show that the proposed scheme improves the system performance in terms of throughput and delay even under highly erroneous channels.     

基于802.11n的WLAN安全解决方案研究

随着无线局域网技术的飞速发展,IEEE 802.11n是无线局域网技术的最新标准,介绍了基于802.11n的MIMO(多入多出)、OFDM(正交频分复用)和双频带等无线通信系统的关键技术,分析了在802.11n标准下WLAN的安全问题,通过数据加密、双向认证、动态WEP密钥和虚拟专用网络等方法,提出了基于802.11n的WLAN安全解决方案。