QoS Provisioning in IEEE 802.11e WLANs through Reactive Monitoring

Author

Cacace, Filippo ; Iannello, Giulio ; Vellucci, Massimo ; Vollero, Luca

Author_Institution

Univ. Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome

fYear

2007

fDate

17-19 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

122

Abstract

IEEE 802.11e provides a basic mechanism for traffic differentiation in WLANs. We present a method based on monitoring the traffic on the AP that it is efficient and allows the enforcement of QoS policies (admission control, traffic prioritization, bandwidth allocation etc.) in a IEEE 802.11e access network. The approach is simple to implement, flexible and does not rely on restrictive hypothesis about the traffic. We validate the proposal through experiments on VoIP traffic conducted in a real test bed.

Keywords

Internet telephony; bandwidth allocation; quality of service; radio access networks; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11e WLAN; QoS policies; QoS provisioning; VoIP traffic; access network; admission control; bandwidth allocation; reactive monitoring; traffic differentiation; traffic prioritization; Access protocols; Admission control; Communication system traffic control; Monitoring; Multiaccess communication; Quality of service; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Teleconferencing; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communication Systems, 2007. ISWCS 2007. 4th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Trondheim

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0979-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0979-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWCS.2007.4392313

Filename

4392313