IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN association procedure for multimedia applications

Author

Ganz, Aura ; Wongthavarawat, Kitti

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1287

Abstract

We propose a new association scheme for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs in a mobile environment. The proposed scheme is suitable for multimedia applications in which the interruption of service experienced by the mobile user while in transit between wireless LAN cells should be minimized. We analyze the proposed association scheme and compare it with the original scheme proposed in the IEEE 802.11 standard. We conclude that if the original scheme is implemented in networks that mainly support multimedia applications (e.g., voice and video), quality of service can not be provided in a mobile environment. The proposed scheme can help in providing a seamless QoS for mobile users running multimedia applications

Keywords

IEEE standards; cellular radio; multimedia communication; quality of service; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 standard; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN association procedure; QoS; mobile environment; multimedia applications; quality of service; video communication; voice communication; wireless LAN cells; Access control; Costs; Delay; Laboratories; Media Access Protocol; Military computing; Quality of service; Registers; Ubiquitous computing; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference Proceedings, 1999. MILCOM 1999. IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5538-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1999.821411

Filename

821411