An ARQ enhancement with QoS support for the 802.11 MAC protocol

Author

Wall, Joshua ; Khan, Jamil Y.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Newcastle Univ., Callaghan, NSW, Australia

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

21-25 March 2004

Firstpage

430

Abstract

Wireless LAN standards have enormous potential to be developed as broadband access networks for future Internet applications supporting multimedia traffic. However, currently deployed IEEE 802.11 standards have little or no QoS support functions built into the MAC layer. The IEEE 802.11e EDCA mechanism is currently being developed to provide QoS functions in the MAC layer based on service differentiation and traffic class prioritization. In this paper, we propose an enhanced ARQ scheme for multimedia traffic, which operates on top of the EDCA mechanism proposed in the IEEE 802.11e draft standard. The performance of the enhanced ARQ algorithm is analyzed using an OPNET simulation model.

Keywords

Internet; access protocols; automatic repeat request; broadband networks; multimedia communication; quality of service; radio access networks; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; 802.11 MAC protocol; ARQ enhancement; IEEE 802.11e EDCA mechanism; Internet applications; OPNET simulation model; QoS support; broadband access networks; local area network; multimedia traffic; quality of service; traffic class prioritization; wireless LAN standards; Access protocols; Algorithm design and analysis; Automatic repeat request; IP networks; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; Standards development; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. WCNC. 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8344-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2004.1311583

Filename

1311583