QoS provisioning in WLAN mesh networks using dynamic bandwidth control

Author

Hock, D. ; Bayer, Nico ; Pries, R. ; Siebert, Max ; Staehle, D. ; Rakocevic, Veselin ; Xu, B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Distrib. Syst., Univ. of Wurzburg, Wurzburg

fYear

2008

fDate

22-25 June 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

WLAN, based on the IEEE 802.11 standard has been extensively studied since its release. In addition to infrastructure access to WLAN, mesh networks currently attract a lot of attention. This comes from the envisioned advantages of wireless mesh networks, such as cheap installation costs, extended coverage, robustness, easy maintenance, and self-configuration possibilities. In this paper we focus on Quality of Service support for multimedia applications in WLAN-based mesh networks. Therefore, a dynamic bandwidth control mechanism is implemented on the network layer and the results show that high prioritized traffic can be protected from disturbing best effort traffic.

Keywords

IEEE standards; multimedia communication; quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 standard; QoS provisioning; WLAN mesh networks; dynamic bandwidth control; installation costs; multimedia applications; network robustness; quality of service; self-configuration possibilities; wireless local area network; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Mesh networks; Protection; Quality of service; Standardization; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; Wireless LAN; Wireless mesh networks; 802.11; Mesh; Testbed; WLAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Conference, 2008. EW 2008. 14th European

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-3-8007-3102-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EW.2008.4623896

Filename

4623896