Class of service control protocol for wireless LAN

Author

Suhonen, J. ; Hännikäinen, Marko ; Hämäläinen, Timo D.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Digital & Comput. Syst., Tampere Univ., Finland

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

7-10 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

2601

Abstract

This paper presents a class of service (CoS) protocol to be used on wireless LANs (WLAN). The protocol provides two modes for bandwidth control and uses centrally controlled topology. The first mode reserves a fixed bandwidth for a station, while in the second mode the station must request a permission to send data. A traffic scheduler for the network is located in the central controller station. A prototype of the protocol operating on IEEE802.11 WLAN has been implemented for testing. Results show that the protocol provides CoS support that differentiates bandwidth and transfer delay for each class.

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; protocols; scheduling; telecommunication congestion control; wireless LAN; IEEE802.11 wireless LAN; bandwidth control; centrally controlled topology; class of service control protocol; congestion control; fixed bandwidth reservation; traffic scheduler; transfer delay; Bandwidth; Centralized control; Communication system traffic control; Delay; Network topology; Permission; Prototypes; Testing; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2003. PIMRC 2003. 14th IEEE Proceedings on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7822-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2003.1259197

Filename

1259197