Achieving higher throughput in ieee 802.11 wireless local area networks with burst transmission methods |
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Authors: | Liu J-S Lin C-HR |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Providence Univ.; |
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Abstract: | As extensions in the emerging 802.11e for quality-of-service provisioning, burst transmission and the acknowledgment aggregation are the two important operations to improve the channel efficiency of IEEE 802.11-based wireless local area networks (WLANs). However, only a few works have been done on these operations, and usually assumed the networks to be operated under saturated traffic conditions and error-free channels. In practice, the assumptions may not be valid because real-time traffic with proper rate control will not saturate the networks and the channel is generally error-prone. Thus, the authors consider two new methods resulted from these operations and analyse their performance under unsaturated and error-prone WLANs, with a Markov chain model. The results show that the new methods generally have better throughput than the conventional IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) in the WLANs. |
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