Dwell adaptive fragmentation: how to cope with short dwells required by multimedia wireless LANs

Author

Tourrilhes, Jean

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

57

Abstract

This paper studies the impact on CSMA/CA traffic of a reduction of the dwell size, a fundamental parameter of some wireless LANs. First, we explain why we want to reduce the dwell size and what are the consequences. Then, we present some ways to overcome the overhead of short dwell, mostly based on fragmentation. We finish by some exhaustive simulations of the short dwell size impact and variations, and the way those fragmentation schemes improve the network performance

Keywords

access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; diversity reception; multimedia communication; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; CSMA/CA traffic; dwell adaptive fragmentation; dwell size reduction; frequency diversity; multimedia wireless LAN; network performance; short dwell size; short dwells overhead; simulations; transmission latency reduction; Delay; Frequency diversity; Laboratories; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Milling machines; Roads; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2000. GLOBECOM '00. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6451-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2000.891681

Filename

891681