Performance analysis of 802.11e transmission bursting in fiberfed networks

Author

Mjeku, Majlinda ; Gomes, Nathan J.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Kent, Canterbury

fYear

2008

fDate

22-24 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

133

Lastpage

136

Abstract

A burst transmission mechanism has been defined in the IEEE 802.11e medium access control extension in order to reduce the overheads in protocol operation and improve efficiency. In this paper, we analyze the throughput and delay performance when this mechanism is used with the immediate acknowledgment policy in a fiber-fed wireless LAN (WLAN). It is shown that the extra propagation delay caused by the optical distribution network in the system affects the burst transmission operation in the presence or otherwise of channel errors and affects the optimum thresholds for switching between the basic access and the request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) modes. It is also shown that significant throughput and media access delay improvements can be gained by the use of burst transmission in contention based 802.11e fiber-fed WLANs, regardless of the load in the network.

Keywords

access protocols; optical burst switching; optical fibre LAN; 802.11e burst transmission; clear-to-send mode; fiber-fed wireless LAN; medium access control protocol; optical distribution network; performance analysis; request-to-send mode; Access protocols; Delay effects; Media Access Protocol; Optical fiber LAN; Performance analysis; Physical layer; Propagation delay; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Basic access; IEEE 802.11e; MAC; RTS/CTS; radio over fiber; wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Symposium, 2008 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1462-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1463-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RWS.2008.4463446

Filename

4463446