Theoretical maximum throughput of IEEE 802.11e EDCA mechanism

Author

Chowdhury, N. M Shafiul Kabir ; Hussain, Md Shahriar ; Ahmed, Farruk

Author_Institution

Dept. EECS, North South Univ., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

606

Lastpage

611

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to validate a formulae, originally derived to calculate the throughout upper bound of the IEEE 802.11 networks, over a single Access Point (AP) based WLAN system combined with the IEEE 802.11e EDCA mechanism. In this paper some important assumptions are made to keep the formulae very simple. The most important assumption is that, the AP is providing service to client nodes with only one type of Access Category (AC) traffic at an instant. Comparing both the theoretically achieved maximum throughput and simulation results, for different access categories (ACs) and for different packet sizes we observed that the formulae is pretty much accurate except for only one test case.

Keywords

wireless LAN; EDCA mechanism; IEEE 802.11 network; WLAN system; single access point; theoretical maximum throughput; wireless local area network; Data models; Delay; Equations; IEEE 802.11e Standard; Mathematical model; Throughput; Access Category (AC); Access Point (AP); EDCA; IEEE 802.11e; Theoretical Maximum Throughput (TMT);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2010 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8496-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCITECHN.2010.5723927

Filename

5723927