IEEE 802.11 and ETSI HIPERLAN type 1: performance comparison under influence of burst-noise channel

Author

Hadzi-Velkov, Zoran ; Spasenovski, Boris

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Skopje, Macedonia

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1008

Abstract

The performance measures of the two standardized WLANs, IEEE 802.11 and ETSI HIPERLAN type 1 have been evaluated and compared under the influence of burst-noise channel (i.e. BER) and “hidden terminal” effect (i.e. “hidden terminal” occurrence probability, P_h). Those effects cause a throughput reduction and increase of delay and discard probability in both WLANs. However, the sophisticated but high overhead EY-NPMA protocol of HIPERLAN 1 suffers higher performance degradation under influence of the fading air medium. In addition, in order to explain the behavior of the WLANs more accurately, one must also consider the impact of the queue length and the number of stations in the ad-hoc network

Keywords

IEEE standards; delays; error statistics; fading channels; performance evaluation; probability; protocols; queueing theory; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; BER; ETSI HIPERLAN type 1; EY-NPMA protocol; IEEE 802.11; ad-hoc network; burst-noise channel; delay; discard probability; fading air medium; hidden terminal occurrence probability; performance comparison; performance measures; queue length; standardized WLAN; throughput reduction; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Electric variables measurement; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Telecommunication standards; Throughput; Traffic control; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2000. IEEE-VTS Fall VTC 2000. 52nd

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6507-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2000.886262

Filename

886262