Reliable Packet Flow Control for Preventing Buffer Overflow in Wi-Fi Serial Bus

Author

Woo-Sung Jung ; Keun-Woo Lim ; Young-Bae Ko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Ajou Univ., Suwon, South Korea

Volume

19

Issue

6

fYear

2015

fDate

42156

Firstpage

1009

Lastpage

1012

Abstract

This letter proposes a novel buffer management scheme for improving the packet delivery of Universal Serial Bus (USB) services in wireless networks. In the future, USB may be used with various wireless services, most notably Wi-Fi, thus realizing Wi-Fi USB (WSB). However, data transmission of Wi-Fi and USB is asynchronous due to differences in their Medium Access Control (MAC), resulting in buffer overflow. To alleviate this problem, we propose an overflow prevention scheme where rates of USB transmission are varied depending on status of Wi-Fi. The proposed scheme is evaluated via the NS-3 simulator, showing that the packet delivery ratio of USB data can reach near 100% even in wireless transmission.

Keywords

system buses; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network reliability; wireless LAN; MAC; USB services; USB transmission; WSB; Wi-Fi USB; buffer management scheme; buffer overflow; medium access control; overflow prevention scheme; packet delivery; reliable packet flow control; universal serial bus services; wireless networks; Bandwidth; Data transfer; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Reliability; Universal Serial Bus; Wireless communication; Buffer Overflow Prevention; Packet Flow Control; Reliability; Wi-Fi Serial Bus; buffer overflow prevention; packet flow control; reliability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2014.2382645

Filename

6990576