An Analytical Model for MAC Protocol Configuration in WLAN

Author

Bin Abd Latif, S. ; Rashid, M.A. ; Alam, F.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Adv. Technol., Massey Univ., Auckland

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 May 2009

Firstpage

711

Lastpage

718

Abstract

The configuration of WLAN MAC by means of super frame (SF) and contention free period (CFP) variation is one of the effective schemes to provide appropriate QoS to interactive multimedia (IMM) traffic. In this paper we investigate the usefulness of a dynamic auto-generated parameter set of CFP and SF combinations as the logical look-up table for the WLAN medium access control scheme. A modified analytical model is used to generate these optimum configurations by minimizing wastage in CFP constrained by the minimum wastage in CP.

Keywords

access protocols; multimedia communication; quality of service; table lookup; wireless LAN; MAC protocol; QoS; WLAN; contention free period variation; interactive multimedia traffic; logical look-up table; super frame variation; Analytical models; Appropriate technology; Delay estimation; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless LAN; Workstations; Analytical Model; CFP; SF; WLAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2009. AINA '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bradford

ISSN

1550-445X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4000-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-445X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AINA.2009.100

Filename

5076269