Nonintrusive estimation of link characteristics in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

Author

Babu, A.V. ; Jacob, Lillykutty ; Karimuddin, Sayed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Calicut, India

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

16-18 Nov. 2005

Abstract

In this paper we consider a non-intrusive link characteristics estimation scheme for IEEE 802.11 based wireless LANs. We provide analytical model for the evaluation of bandwidth and data latency of a wireless link. The model is validated against simulation. The method takes into account the effect of medium contention, channel fading and interference, which influence the link bandwidth and latency. The proposed estimation scheme will serve as a basis for admission control and rate control of competing flows sharing the network.

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; fading channels; radiofrequency interference; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN; admission control; channel fading; data latency; interference; link bandwidth; medium contention; nonintrusive estimation; rate control; wireless link; Access protocols; Admission control; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Delay; Fading; Interference; Local area networks; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Estimation; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN; Latency; Link bandwith;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 2005. Jointly held with the 2005 IEEE 7th Malaysia International Conference on Communication., 2005 13th IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1531-2216

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0000-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2005.1635658

Filename

1635658