Providing Quality of Service in IEEE 802.11 WLAN

This paper aims to provide quality of service (QoS) for IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN). Specifically, we develop a new scheduling algorithm in link layer to support multimedia services with guaranteed QoS in WLAN. The proposed scheduling algorithm makes use of the idle system time to reduce average packet loss of real-time (RT) variable-bit-rate (VBR) services, while satisfying required transmission delay and bandwidth requirements of all RT services. Detailed analysis is given by taking into account several key statistical factors, such as service traffic model, the ratio between the polling period and the contention period (CP), burst generation probabilities. Performance is evaluated through OPNET simulation. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed joint scheme is effective in terms of both system resource utilization and QoS provisioning